Taber free press (1908-12-17)

‘VOL. IL, NO. 44

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Hall, Main Street.
Visiting brethren
rordinll y

or hefore the

weleome.

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All work gu:

TanOrman
CTOR, BUILDER,

uranteed in’ every way.

Estimates given on all classes of

buildings
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Public Seales in connection

BERT SUTTON

PROPRIETOR |

SONT MISS

THE

Sacrifice Sale
STO V ES

FROM

INCLUSIVE

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HIELL
ELL
TOVE
and
Furnaces

After. Money
Only

Hon. Nelson Monteith,
Ex-Minister of Ontatio
Expresses
This View

i

the of

| Opinion which the public is securing

Amid many expressions

| day after day from visitors to this

| province as to its wonderful ‘merits, |

lit is refreshing to hear the frank,
| ;
outspoken
|

berta

impressions which

West

lone who comes with no 2

and the have made
xo FO grind,
| with no cause for extravagant lauda-
but who is making « tour of

West that

acquainted swith

(tions,
:

the he may be as well

¢)

this part of the. Do-

minton of Canada as he ts with the
Mast.
This aman is) ton. Nelson Mon-'!
teith, ex-minister of agriculture for
“Ontario under the Whitney Govern
ment. Me. Montéith lias made a
pbrief but im observant tour of the!
pWost as far as the eoast wid visited
Edmonton on Tuesday on ti '
oO his farm near Strattor © 10
While. in the city Ma. M eit
called en Hon. WoCE. builay aod) Mo
(Feorge Harcourt ab the Parhamen
Buildings, the latter of whos havin
wbeen a class-mate of tus at the On
roo Agrieultural College?
WEST TS Too FAST. :

} ini I
teith does not place much stress on
the activities of publie life. He fee
that) Chere-are grvater enjoviments.in
jlife than aspiring to fame and m iking
money The pleasure that the man-
agement of his fara. gives him out
weighs nll the fuscintions of pt iblic
oftige. My. Monteith indieated this

state: oof natnd COURSE Ol

in the
Intwmview given to w Bul

scubative i cee giving his

Ihipressiot
“What bon

West Mh

all absorbing des

everybody to make

fee tiost about the

said Monteith, “is the

on the part of
Where-
at the
1 hear of

sire
money,

ever Leo inthe railway car,

hotel ov on the strect

propositions that are under way and

of how imuch money certain indr-

viduals have nmde on a deal in real

estate or on crop returns.

course, is typical of wa new country;

| but as time goes by the: people must

pay mere attention to the aesthetic

Come:and Sce
US AND

What We

| Are Doing

IN

This Month.

A. Potter & Co

| Fallors, siadasen niin and Outfitters

1

TO MEN WHO KNOW

‘| values that are given to property and

TABER, ALBERTA, THURSDAY, ‘DECEMBER 17, 1908

“Donald
McNabb

DECLARES

side of their nature or they will miss
the real enjoyments of Jife..
INFLATED LAND VALUES.
“A consequence of the desire for
money is the enormously inflated

even to the necessaries of life. Es-
pecially is this true of British Co-
lumbia, where living. is* very expen-
give, and’ where values for fruit and
farm lands are in the clouds. The
levelling period must come, when the |
West will assume a more ane

position and when land can

bought for its commercial value oie HIMSELF
not for its speculative value.”

| Mr. Monteith was impressed with aan |
| the wonderful agricultural outlook | i

(pees at the small percentage of |

| land

5 | proportionately large areas that Gan |

Al- |

on |

s ,
country can produce will be

This, of |

CLOTHING

i. 10th to pov. 17th

ifor these He: was sur-

provinces.

To be First, Last and Al-.
ways for the Working-
man, Regardless of any
other Influence which
may be Brought to Bear

on flim

|
under cultivation and at the

ibe brought under the plow. In hia|

opinion the department of agriculture

has a problem before it,
the

mental by reason of the compara- |
|

as so much

1 of work to be done is experi- |

i tively lig In Ontario |

ith rainfall here.
fll is 42 inches,

the rain while in|
Alberta it%is only some 20 inches in|
the year. 4On this account prin- |
cipies of agriculture which apply in| In reply toa communie ation from |
Ontario do not apply to this pro- | the Labor Bulletin, requesting
vit New 4 rineiples must be outline of the position taken by a
oc at. Alberta is only in the ex- candidate of the 1.1..P., Donald Me-
perimental stage im respect to agri- Nabb, the following was received :
; : | J have been a tredes unionist, for
DON'T PORGIES TINE RAST hover twenty years and have. always
F ther thing about the West been a strong su porter lol trace
bo comes under my observation’) Umer princip'es. 1 have always
\\ is the little been an advocate of a Labor party,
on that is paid to’ the news believing that Unionism alone contd
frat th The impression 1, 08h help us in meaimtaining out
1; tod is that vou cut: loose) W#8es but could never alter” existing
Pa | ; Sysleing to any extent
vn ati Lottie ‘consk Wis “Foam in favor of . government
mad } , ! than ever that | own hip of all puble niilities such
ia Canadian here is a wonder- rf Miways, tmilpes, CieValoys an
Pty ty head’ of pur-ponntey in tever vhing that could be operated by |
tho eXxplokungy of our ‘fisheries and the syrcrumenl ia lhe utterescs -
our soil. |The best brains that’ the | he win classes.

needed

io guide the destinies: of the Do- | tion on Act.t veing further’ amended by |
minion of Canada for many years to striking out the clause which states
came.’ | that this uct is available in the con- |

lstruction of buildings only when the

* | height exceeds thirty feet.

it should be available from the
* Board of Tr ate ' ground. I believe we should have
as good an act as the Amended Act

L would support
Amended Act of

treat Britain.

et similar te the

Meeting

A of the
of Trade was held in the city hall on) a bone of contention between miners
Alberta |

There |some time, namely,

it Brit tal. a Oe

win prepared to} poy up a hard

special meeting Board ia on « proposition this has been

this district for

that

Tuesday night to discuss the and operators in

Government's railroad policy. all coal be

was a good attendance and much | weighed before screening.

that
all working-imen shall be paid i in law-

interest was shown. It was decided; lam prepared to advocate

to draw up a petition to be signed

locally for presentation to the Go- j ful currency instead of by cheque.

vernment asking that a line be built; “Regarding my attitude towards|

north and south through. Taber, the Government, 1.e, the Liberal
. . |

thus opening up a vast country for | party, I am prepared to support

settlement. R.P. Wallace and R, A.jthem in any measure that they

VanOrmuan were appointed delegates / bring forward if it is in the interests
to BUT NOT |
‘vernment and present the claims of | OTHERWISE,”
(Signed)

DONALD MceNABB

Edmonton to interview the Go-|of the working classos

Southern Alberta and the proposed
We!
| understand Mayor Deuglas and Coun-

‘Taber railroad in particular.

cillor F. R. Davis may be at Edmon- |
at

| business, when they will

council |
the |

ton the same time on

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' Board of Trade delegates. |

—-- |! Knox Church-—Morning service at |
/1l a.m., followed by Sunday School |
An editor works 365 days in a} | and Bible Class. . Evening _ Service, |

year to get out, 52.issues of a paper, | 7.30. Wednesday Congregational | |

O: a while
| that’s labor. nee in a iil) 5 aver Maoking, 8 p.m
subscriber pays a year in advance | |
for his paper, that’s capital. And | ‘Theodore Church. - Morning |
jonce in w while. some dead- beat | Prayer, 11 a.m.; Sunday School,

sucker takes the paper for a couple |
of yeary and then skips without

‘paying for it, that’s anarehy. | Holy Diosediaiion: 11 a.m. first Sun- |

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fa hundred unemployed held a meet: :

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alleged that the employment agents | every Sunday. Sacrament _meet- |
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* mask of his sullenness had fallen. His

“pox plum full of diamon’s.”

* melodrama.

MYSTERY

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ne ‘ aft

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; , (Continued)
The ship careened to a chance swell.
A door slammed. The voices: were cut

off. I looked up. The nigger’s head
was thrust forward fairly. into the
glow from the companionway. The

eyes fairly ,rolled in excitement. His
hick lips were drawn back to expose
his teeth. His powerful figure was
gathered with the tensity of a bow.
. When the door slammed he turned si-
lently to glide away. At that instant
the watch was changed, and in a.mo-
ment I found myself in my bunk.

Ten seconds later the nigger, de-
tained by Captain Selover for some
trifling duty, burst into the forecastle.
He was posséssed of the wildest ex-
citement. This in itself was enough
to gain the attention of the men, but
his first words were startling.

“I found de treasuré!” he almost
shouted. “I know where he kept!”

They leaped at him—Handy Solo-
mon and Pulz—and fairly shook out of
him what he thonght: he knew. He
babbled in the forgotten terms of al-
chemy, ‘dressing modern facts in the
garments of mediaeval thought until
they were scarcely to be recognized.

“And so he say dat he fine him, de
nhilosonher stone, and he keep him in
dat heavy box we see him carry
aboard, and he don’ have to make gol’
with it—he can make diamon’s—dia-
mon’s—he say it too easy to fill dat

They gesticulated and exclaimed and
breathed hard, full of the marvel of
such a thought. Then abruptly the
clamor died to nothing. I felt six
eyes bent on me, six unwinking eyes
moving restless in motionless figures,
suspicious, deadly as cobras.

Up to now my standing with the
men had been well enough. Now they
drew frankly apart. One of the most
significant indications of this was the
incréased respect they paid my office.
It was as though by prompt obedi-
ence, instant deference and the em-
phasizing of ship’s etiquette they in-
tended to draw sharply the line be-
tween themselves and me. There was
much whispering apart, many private |
talks and consultations in which I had
no part. Ordinarily they talked free-
ly enough before me. Even the read-
ing during the dog watch was inter-
mitted—at least it was on such days
as I happened to be in the watch be-
low. But twice I caught the nigger
and Handy Sdlomon ‘constlting to-
gether over the volume on alchemy.

I was in two minds whether to re-
port the whole matter to Captain Sel-
over. The only thing that restrained
me was the vagueness of the inten-
tion and the fact that the afterguard
was armed and was four to the crew’s
five. An incident, however, decided
me. One eyening I was awakened
by a sound of violent voices, Cap-
tain Selover’ occasionally juggled the
watches for, variety’s sake, and I now
had Hand¥ Solomon and Perdosa.
The nigger, being cook, stood no watch,

“You drunken greaser swab!” snarl-
ed Handy Solomon. “You son of a
Yaqui! I'll learn you to step on a
seaman’s foot, and you can kiss the
book on that! I’ll] cut your heart out
and feed it to the sharks!” .

“Potha!”’ sneered Perdosa. ‘You
cut heem you finger wid your knife.”

They wrangled. At first I@thought
the quarrel genuine, but after a mo-
ment or so I could not avoid a sort of
reminiscent impression of the cheap
It seemed incredible, but
soon I could not dodge the conclusion
that it was a makeup quarrel designed
to impress me. . ,

Why should they desire to do so? I
had to give it up, but the fact itself
was obvious enough. I laughed to see
them. The affair did not come to
blows, but it did come to black looks
on meeting, muttered oaths, growls of
enmity every time they happened to
pass each other on the deck. Perdosa
was not so bad. His Mexican blood
inclined him to the histrionic, and his
Mexican cast lent itself well to evil
looks. But Handy Solomon for the
first timé in my acquaintance with
him was ridiculous,

About this time we crossed into fre-
quent thunders. One evening just at
dark we made out a heavy black
squall. Not knowing exactly what
weight lay bebind it, I called up all
hands. We ducked the’ staysail and
foresail, lowered the peak of the main-
sail and waited to feel of it. a rough
and ready seamanship often used in
these little California wind jammers.
1 was pretty busy, but I heard dis-
tinctly Handy Solomon’s voice behind
me:

“I'll kill you sure, you greaser, as
soon as my hands are free!” ,

And some muttered reply -from the
Mexican.

The wind hit us hard, held on a iew
moments and moderated to a stiff puff.
There followed the rain, so of course |
knew it would amount to nothing. I
was just stooping to throw the stops
off the staysail when I felt myself
seized from behind and forced rapidly
toward the side of the ship. r

Of course I struggled. The Japa-
nese have a little trick to fool a man
who catches you around the waist
from behind. It is part of the jiu jitsu
taught the Samurai, quite a different
proposition from the ordinary “police-
man jiu jitsu.” I picked it up from a |
‘friend in the nobility. It came in very {
“handy now, and by good luck a roll of

‘ ‘

the ship helped me, In a moment I
stood free, and Perdosa was picking
himself out of the scuppers, ;

The expression of astonishment was
fairly ‘well done—I fwill say that for
him—but I was prepared for histrion-
les. : .

“Senor!” he gasped. “Eet is you!
Sacrosanta Maria! I thought you was
dat Solomén! Pardon me, senor! Par-
‘lon! Have T hurt you?” . AL

He approached ine almost wheedling.
I could have laughed at the villain:
it was all so transparent. He no more
inistook me for Handy Solomon then
he felt any real enmity for that person.
But, being nugry and perhaps a little

scared, I beat him to his-quarters with | was true.

n belaying pin.

On thinking the matter over, how-
ever, I failed to see all.the ins and
outs of it. I could understand a desire
to get rid of me. There would be one
less of the afterguard, and then, too, I
knew too much of men’s senti-
ments if n»t of their plans. But why

all this eluborate farce of the mock | quarters and to snug down for a stay

quarrel and the alleged mistake‘
‘Could it be to guard against possible
failure? I could bardly think it worth
while.
had wished to test my strength and
determination. The whole affair, even
on that supposition, was childish
enough, but I referred the exaggerated
cunning to Handy Solomon and con-
sidered it quite adequately explained.
It is a minor point, but subsequently
I learned that this surmise was cor-
rect. I was to be saved because none
of the conspirators understood naviga-
tion. ¢

The next morning I approached Cap-
tain Selover.

“Captain,” said I, “I think it my
duty to report that there is trouble
brewing among the crew,”

“There always is,” he replied,
moved. i

“But this is serious. Dr. Schermer-
horn came aboard with a chest which
the men think hold treasure. The
other evening Robinson overheard him
tell his assistant that he ‘could easily
fill the box with diamonds. Of course
he was merely illustrating the value
of some scientific experiment, but Rob-
inson thinks and has made the others
think that the chest contains some-
thing to make diamonds with. I am
sure they intend to get hold of it.
The affair is coming to a head.”
Captain Selover listened almost in-
differently.

“IT came back from the islands last
year,” he piped, “with $300,000 worth
of pearls. There was sixteen in the
crew, and every man of them was
blood hungry for them pearls. They
had three or four shindies and killed
one man over the proper way to divide

un-

My only theory was that they | there’s something to do there.”

,: ¥

THE TABER FREE PRESS.

“The volcano is. active.” was his. on-
ly. comment, but it explained the rag
ged cloud.

“You say ‘theres 4 harbor?” inquired
Captain Selover. ; :

“It. should be on the west end,” said
Dr. Schermerhorn, —

lLesCaptain Selover drew ‘me one, side.
He, too, was a little aroused.

“Now, wouldn't that get you?” he
squeaked. “Doctor runs up against .a
Norwegian bum who .tella. bifh, about
a volcanic island and gives Its bear-

‘ings. The island ain't. on the map at
all. Doctor believes it and makes m
lay my course for those bearings. And

| here’s the island! So the bum’s story

I'd like to know what the

rest of it was.” His eyes were shin-
ing. :

* “Do we anchor or stand off and én?” :

I asked. bs ;
Captain Selover turned to grip .me
by the shoulder.
“I have orders from D«rrow to get
to a good berth, to land, to build shore

of a year at least.”
We stared at each other.
“Joyous prospect,” I-muttered. “Hope

The morning wore, and we rapidly
approached the island. It proved to
be utterly precipitous, The high
rounded hills sloped easily to within
a hundred feet or so of the water and
then fell away abruptly. Where the
earth ended was a fantastic filigree
border, like the fancy paper with
which our mothers ,used to line the
pantry shelves. Below the white

' surges flung themselves against the
cliffs with a wild abandon. Thousands
of sea birds wheeled in the eddfes of
the wind, thousands of ravens perch-
ed on the slopes. Wilh our: glasses
we can|a moke out the heads of seals
fishing outside the surf and a tagged
belt of kelp.

When within a mile we put the helm
up and ran for the west end. A bold
point we avoided far out lest there
should be outlying ledges. Then we
came in sight of a broad beach and
pounding surf. :

I was ordered to take a surf boat
and investigate for a landing and an
anchorage. The swell was running
high. We rowed back and forth, puz-
zled as to how to get ashore with all
the freight it would be necessary to
land. The ship would lie well enough,
for the only open exposure was bro-
ken by a long reef over which we
could make out the seas tumbling.
But inshore the great waves rolled
smoothly, swiftly, then suddenly fell
forward as over a ledge and spread
with a roar across the yellow sands.
The fresh winds blew the spume back
to us. We conversed in shouts.

“We can surf the boat,” yelled
Thrackles, “but we can’t land a load.”

the loot after they had got it. They
didn’t get it. Why?’ He drew his
powerful figure to its height and

spread his thick arms out in the lux- }
ury.of stretching. “Why?” he repeat-
ed, exhaling abruptly, ‘Because their
captain was Ezra Selover: Well, Mr.
Eagen,” he went on crisply, “Captain
Ezra Selover is their captain, and they
know. it. They'll talk and palaver
and git into dark corners and sharpen

their knives and perhaps fight it out |

as to which one’s going to work the

monkey doodle business in the doc. |

tor’s chest apd which one’s going to
tie up the sacks of them diamonds,
but they won’t git any farther as long
as Captain Ezra is on deck.”

“Yes,” I objected, “but they mean
business. Last night in the squall
one of them tried to throw me over-
board.” wo

Captain Selover cringed. om

“What did you d6?* he asked.

“Hazed him to his quarters with a
belaying pin.’ . :

“Well, that’s all settled then, isn’t
it? What more do you want?”

I stood undecided.

“I can take care of inyself,” he went
on. “You ought to take care of your-
self.. Then there’s nothing more to
do.”

He mused a moment.

“You have a gun, of course?” he in-
quired. “I forgot to ask.”

“No,” said I.

He whistled.

“Well, no wonder you feel sort of
lost and hopeless, Here, take this;
it'll make a man of you.”

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That was my opinion. We rowed
slowly along, parallel to the shore and
just outside the line of breakers.

I don’t know exactly how to tell you
the manner in which we became aware
of the cove. It was as nearly the in-
stantaneous as can be imagined. One
minute I looked ahead on a cliff as
unbroken as the side of a cabin; the
very next I peéred down the length of
a cove fifty fathoms long by about ten
wide, at the end of which was a grav-
el beach. I cried out sharply to the
men. They were quite as much aston-
ished as I. We backed water, watch-
ing closely. At a given point the cove
and all trace of its entrance disap-

| peared. We could only just make out

| the line where the headlands dissolved
into the background of the cliffs and
that merely because we knew of its
existence. The blendifiig was perfect.

‘To be Continued)

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He gave me a Colt’s 45, the barrel
of which had been filed down to about
two inches of length. It was a most
extraordinary weapon, but effective at
short range.

“Here’s a few loose cartridges.” said
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it I could easily handle the members
of my own watch, and I did not doubt
that with the assistance of Percy ‘Dar-

tow even a surprise would bardly

overwhelm us. | did not count on Dr.

Schermerborn. He, was quite capable

of losing himself in a problem of tra-
jectory after the first shot.

CHAPTER XIII.

CAME on deck one mgrning at

about 4 bells to find the entire

Ship's company afoot. Even

the doctor was there. Every-

body was gazing eagerly at a narrow.

mountainous island lying slate colored
across the early morning.

We were as yet some twenty miles
distant from it and could make out
nothing but its general outline, The
latter was sharply defined, rising and
falling to a highest point. one side of
the middle. Over the island and rag-
gedly clasping its sides hing a cloud,
the only one visible in the sky.

I joined the afterguard.

“You see?’ the doctor was exclaim-
ing. “It iss us | haf said. The island
iss there. Everything iss as it should
be!” He was quite excited, ~

Percy Darrow, too, was shaken out
of lis ordinary cali.

i

consumer, something more than mere
| Balesmanship on paper.
| “Advertising is a positive creative
! force in business. It builds factories,
| skyscrapers and railroads. It makes
two blades of grass grow in the busi-
ness world where only one grew be-
fore. It multiplies human wants and
intensifies desires. The result is that
it forces man to greater consumption,
hence stimulates his production to
keep up with his buying desires.
“Before advertising was developed
into a fine art-and before it became a
factor in the commercial world the
business of the manufacturer and mer-
chant was to supply the normal needs
and desires of the human family; mer-
| chandising was bounded by’ man’s ne-
| cessities and by his meager knowledge
| of the luxuries which he deemed with-
| in his reach.”

Hint of Untidiness.

“If you want to study human na-
ture just try befng a salesman in a
department store for even a_ short
time,” said the clerk over his evening
meal, “There isn't a day but I have
a: quiet laugh over the remarks of cus-
tomers or, more frequently, would be
customers. Today, for instance, I was
approached by a well dressed elderly
woman with the request to show her
some cups and saucers, She did not

want china ones—something in porce-

lain, for ‘common everyday use,’ she
4 said. I brought out samples, and final-

ly her choice simmered dowh to a plain

white and the other a white with a

dull grayish green figure. As if to ac-

count for her decision she said to me

in a most confidential tone: ‘I guess I’
{ take the gray ones. They won’t show
| the dirt so soon.’”

Seema Sk i OO. Se le

}
CURRANT BUNS.

Supper. R

To make curtant buxs mix a cake
of compressed yeast with one-fourth
cupful of lukewarm water and add to
it a cupful of scalded milk cooled to
a lukewarm temperature. Add also
about a cup and a half of white flour
and “beat watil “the batter. is very

smooth, thed coter and ‘tet stand in a
warm place. to become very light

CURRANT BUNS GLAZED WITH SUGAR.

Then add half a cupful of currants,
half a cupful of sugar, one beaten egg,
one teaspoonful of salt and one-fourth
cupful of melted shortening. Mix thor-
oughly, them beat in enough flour to
make a soft dough. About two cupfiuis
will be needed. Let this stand to be-
come light, then roll into a sheet and
into rounds. Gake when about dou-
bled in bulk from thirty to, forty min-
utes. Stir a teaspoonful of cornstarch
with cold water to 2 smooth liquid con-
sistency, then pour on boiling water.
Let it cook five minutes and use it to
baste the tops of the rolls. Dredge
them thickly with. granulated sugar
and return them te the oven to glaze.

CARE OF THE EYES.

It Is Bad to Read on a Railroad Train
When In Motion.

‘Never rub the eyes, for this practice
causes inflammation of the lids, and,
however beautiful the expression, if
the eyes are red or without lushes' they
lose their charm.

When a foreign substance gets into
the eye do not irritate it by trying to
force it out. Keep the eye closed for
a few moments or until the object is
removed by the tears which will flow.
If, however, it is impossible to remove
the substance yourself, have some one
who will perforin the cperation care-
fully remove it for you.

If the wind has reddened the eyelids,
wash them in slightly salted warm wa-
ter, using common salt. .

However strong the eyes may be,
give them a little rest after a few
hours’ continuous use. Never force
them to gaze at minute objects when
they are weak. Neither write, read
nor sew when the light is dim. Dur-
ing all continuous work close the eyes
from time to time at intervals.

@reat care should be taken thdt ‘the
light should fal! froan the side, not futl
in the face. When working it should
be allowed to fall upon the left side.

It is bad to rend on a railway train,
in a carriage, while walking, while
lying down or while physically tired.

Beds should not be so placed that
the eyes receive the full rays of sun-
light on awakening. The light should
fall from the side. :

A very good wash that will strength-
en the sight and restore its powers is
made of one pint of soft water, a pinch
of common salt and a spoonful of
brandy.

A Deadener of Pain.

Iodine is an excellent deadener of
pain. In cases of toothache, paincng
the gum, taking care not to swallow
any of it, because it is poison, will
frequently reiieve pain. It will ease
the ache of yheumatism if applied to
the sore joint and is recommended for
use on a painful corn.

Menthol cologne is one of the best
simple applications for'a beadache.
The combination of burning sensation
and coolness that it gives the skin is
very refreshing. An eve wash of bo-
racic acid and camphor that is put np
by all druggists should he in every
traveling outfit, for the eyes suiver
rreat strain from tight and heat and
need special attention, A few drops
of this compound dropped on the eye-
balls after a journey or at night will
have a most soothing effect and may
even prevent a headache.

Soap Economy.

Bits of soap should never be flung
away, but placed in a glass or chinu
jar until a number bave been accumnn
lated. They should then be dissolved in
boiling water into soap jelly, which
may be used for various purposes.
That made from the jar reserved for
toilet soaps may be used for the bath,
and that from kitchen and laundry
soaps may be used for laundry pur-
poses. Care should be tuken to see that
every bit of soap added to the. jar ts
clean. It is by. no means an uncom-
mon thing to see soap looking anything |
but attractively clean.

»Women Out of Business World.

Hamilton Mabie is reported as hav-
Ing said that he did not think the
present industrial age, in which wo-
men take part in the work of the
world, will last a century. Nor did he
think it desirable that it should. He
did not ‘tell what he thought would
replace this industrial age nor what is
to recompense the women for the
pleasures they will miss when. they
shajl havé some one else to work for
them. onan :

’
The Smile Wins.

Don't expect life to smile gt you un-
less you smile first. Don’t ‘expect to
have a friendly hand extended to you
unless you look as if the hand would
be appreciated. The girl with a smile
am outstrip her sullen sister +very
Jme, '

ee

|for the men disappeared,

ey; that was never recovered.

AN ILL FATED SHIP.

A Delicious Gread For Luncheon. or Mystery and Tragedy The. ercom-

passed the Great Eastern.

There was a mystery about that iT
fated ship. -Nothing went right with
her, She stuck at the launch, and it
cost an.extra $350,000 over and above
the sum set aside for the purpose to
get her into the: water, On her trial
trip her boilers burst, killing some ef

the‘ stokers, “They she, tan aground |.

and carried on. so: outrageously, that
her crew thought her surely bewitched.
Bhe had started badly. While she was
building a pay clerk sent by one of
the contractors with $6,500 in wages
i It was not
unnaturally assumed that he had bolt+
ed. with the money. His wife and
family were left unprevided for, with
the stigma of his supposed crime upon
them,

Thirty years after her launch the
Great Eastern went into the cemetery
at Birkenhead to be broken up. While
she was being taken to pieces the ship
breakers discovered between her inner
and outer casings of steel the skeleton
of.a man, Papers which had fallen
from his clothes enabled his identity
to be tgaced. It was: the skeleton of
the pay clerk who thirty years before
had disappeared. There was no mon-

The supposition is that the poor fel-
low on going on to the ship was pounc-
ed upon -by workmen who knew that
he had the money with him; that they
stunned him and, having a small place
in the side of the vessel to complete,

crammed his body in and built him up

in it. No reward would have induced
a sailor to sail-in that vessel had he

known of the terrible secret sealed up
in her walls.

LAFCADIO HEARN.

The ‘Way the Writer Got Even With
the Heartless Editors.
“Lafcadio Hearn, that wonderful
writer, worked on newspapers in his
youth,” said. a publisher, “and the
ruthless Way his studies were chang:

ed, cut and butchered was a great woe
‘to his heart.

“In after years Hearn took a mali-
cious joy in collecting stories about

editors—editors and their superior and
omniscient way with manuscript.

“One of his stories was of an editor
to whom a subscriber said:

“‘T enjoyed that poem on the three
ages of man in today’s paper, Mr.
Sheers; I enjoyed it immensely. Do
you know, though, I thought that it
was originally written the seven ages
of man!’

“So it was, sir; so it was,’ said Edl-
tor Sheers pompously. ‘Yes, the ex-
tract was originally written the seven
ages of man, but I had to cut it down
for lack of space.’

“Another story concérned a weather
report. A reporter, discussing the
weather, wrote that winter still lin-
gered in the lap of spring.

“The editor as he read over the arti-
cle called the reporter up to his desk
and told him that he would cut out
that sentence about winter lingering
in spring’s lap. He said the idea was
good enough and original and all that
sort of thing, but it would not do to

publish because the high moral tone j.

of the paper had to be maintained in
a town full of school girls.”

Staring at Royalty.
Royalties.are early cured of any shy-
ness of being looked at. They are there
to be seen, and both the king and
queen when they go to the opera and
turn their glasses on the occupants

who feel abashed under the inspection.
Not a trace of self cénsciousness is left
on the face of an English royalty, with
the exception of perhaps a_ single
princess under an artillery of glances.
Such attentions are anything but re
sented. Indeed, the beautiful Duchess
of Devonshire used to say that when
the butcher boy ceased to turn round
after her in the street she would know
her reign was over.—London Chronicle.

Didn’t Agree With Him.

A Carolina man was recently in
specting a farm owned by him and op-
erated by an old friend who had press-
ed into service every member of his
family, including his aged father,

“The old man must be getting along
fm years,”’ said the owner.

“Yes; dad’s nigh on to ninety,” was
the reply.

“Is his health good?”

“Well, no.. The old man ain’t been
hisself for some time back.”

“What seems to be the matter?’

“I dunno, sir. | guess farming don’t

agree with him no more.”
Cheap Fun.
He—You talk about men playing

poker. It is no worse a vice than the
shopping habit of the women. She—
Perhaps not, morally speaking; but,
then, it takes money to play poker,
whereas a woman can shop all day
without it costing her a cent except
what she pays for car fare.

Might Have Known.

An austere looking lady walked into
a furrier’s and said to the shopman,
“I should like to purchase a muff,”

“What fur?” demanded the man.

“To keep my hands warm, you
ddiot!” exclaimed the lady.—London
Scraps. i ,

A Distinction With a Difference.

Editor—You see, a story has to be
Just so to get in our magazine. Author
—Well, what’s the matter with this
one of mine? Editor—It’s only so-so.—
IPuck,

‘

A secret is seldom safe in more than
one breast.—Swift, f

e)

—— ee -—*

of opposite boxes are openly amused)|‘y)
by the disconcerted looks of persons Mr

Young Folks.

MY. LADY’S. TOILET...

Any Number of Players .May Join fm -
This Game. ra

Here is a game that, will give ‘boys
"ana girls no end of ‘fun. It requires
no muterials except a wooden plate or
a circular tray. Indeed, any circular
object will do that may be twirled
around on the floor and ts ‘not easily’
broken. Any number of boys'and giris
may play it. Badch player takes the
name of some article belonging to @
lady's toflet, as bairbrush, bat brash,
comb, buirpin, gloves, ete: .
‘The plevers take’ seats around the,
sides of the room, and the one who
hus been selected to start the game
goes to the center and twirls the plate
on the floor as bard as he can. As the
plate begins to spin he speaks soute
sentence in which he uses the name of
one of the toilet ar&cles, and the play-
er whé has that name must leave bis
seat und try to catch the plate before
it stops twirling. If he, fails he pays a
forfeit and takes the twirler’s place.

1/If be succeeds he takes the place with-

out paying a forfeit.

The plate spinner generally speaks a
sentence like this: “My lady is going
out; and she wants her gloves.” The
player whose name is: “gloves” then
runs to.the plate und tries to catch it.
The spinner has 2 right at any time

to call out the single word “Toflet© |

and when he does all the players have
to change seats. The one that does not
get a seat—the spinner, of course, ai-
ways gets one—must then take the
plate and pay a forfeit. Forfeits muy
be redeemed at the end of the game,
and this gives a chance for still more
fun,

AN AMUSING TRICK.

Supposed Picture on. Slate Turned
Into a Dancing Figure.

The trick here described is certain to
cause much astonishment if well ar-
ranged beforehand. Get a piece of
board about the size of a large school
slate and bave it painted black. The
paint should be what is known as a
dead color, without gloss or bright-
ness. Sketch out the figure of a skele-
.ton on a piece of cardboard and ar-
range it after the manner of a jump-
ing jack. so that by holding the figure
by the heud in one hand and pulling a
string with the other the figure will
throw up its Jegs and arms in @ moat
ludicrous manner. Make the connec-
tion. of the arms and legs with black
string and let the pulling string be ulso
black. bleton iv the

Then tack the s
head to the blackloar The figure

MANIPULATING THE FIGURE.

having been cut out, it must be painted
black to match the board. ;

Now to perform. Produce the board.
Show only the side upon which there
is: nothing. Request that the
may be lowered slightly and take up
your position a little way from the au-
dience. With a piece of white chalk
make one or two attempts to draw a
figure. Rub out your work as beiug
unsatisfactory and turn the slate
round. The black figure will not be
perceived on account of the board he-
ing the same color.

chalk, filling up the ribs, ete., at tlei-
sure, taking great care that nothing
moves while the drawing is progress-
ing. Then manipulate your fingers in
front of the drawing and command it
to become animated, when by secretly
pulling the string attuched to the skel-
eton with your foot it will, of course,
kick up its legs and throw its arms—
about, to the ustonishment of the com-
pany. A little soft music from the
piano will greatly assist the illusiou.—
Philadelpbia Ledger,

Overheard In the Wood Shed.
“I bear you are quite a sporisman,”
said the shovel to the coal,
“Never bandied a gun in my life,”
said the coal.

“Why, I'm certain I overheard some, -

one say that he’d seen the coal shute.’
“Oh, please stop poking me!” sal
the fire to the poker. “You tickle.”
. “Our master’s house js beautiful up-
stairs,” said the furnace to the poker,
“The flues are guing up there all the
time, and they told me all about it"—
Philadelphia Ledger. }

Harry’ y's Funny Answer,
When Harry was four years old bis
grandmother was trying to teach bim

to count and asked: =~

“How many legs have you?”

He answered promptly, “Two.” -

“How many legs has Brownlie?’

Looking at the dog for a moment, he
replied, “Brownle has one on eaéh cor
ner.” f

‘

lizuts ~

Rapidly touch th
edges of the cardboard figure wit

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.

«MP. S.A. Cote, Assistant Manager
, Hotel Victoria, Quebec, Canada, writes

THE BIBLE,

@ leter to the Peruna Drug Mfg. Co. \M “Misinfe out
pactea ier (> Coq |Much Popular Misinformation Abo

|

AFTER USING PE-RU-NA
1 AM’ COMPLETELY CURED

Mr. L. A. Cote, Assistant Manager
Hotel Victoria, Quebec, Can., writes:

“} suffered with catarrh for about
eight years, and have tried many phy-
gicians or spécialists for this sickness,
2nd never obtained any relief. It was
only after using your Peruna medicine
that I began to get better. I have
used ten bottles up till now, and am
glad to say that I am completely cur-
ed. I am glad to let the public know
it. A good thing is never too dear.”

We have on file many testimonials
like the one given here. Probably
no other physician in the world has’
received such a volume of enthusiastic
letters of thanks as Dr. Hartman for
Peruna.

ST re TE

sprinkled around the cracks will ex-
terminate ants and beetles. ;

Mother Graves’ Worm Exterminator
will drive worms from the system
without injury to the child, because
its action,

. mild.

while fully effective, is

A cracked egg can be boiled with-
out any of the white running out by
putting teaspoonful of salt in the
water. * os a 4

DEAFNESS CANNOT BE CURED
by local applications, as they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the
ear. There is only one way to cure
deafness, and that is by constitutional
remedies. Deafness is caused by an
inflamed condition of the mucous

* lining of the Eustachian Tube. When
this tube 3s inflamed you have a rum-
bling sound or imperfect. hearing,
and when it is entirely closed, Deaf-

\ ness is the result, and unless the in-

’ flammation can be taken out and

this tube restored to its normal con-
dition, hearing will be destroyed for-
ever; mine cases out of ten are caus-
ed by Catarrh, which is nothing but
‘an inflamed condition of the mucous
surfaces.

We will give One Hundred Dollars
for any case of Deafness (caused by
eatarrh) that cannot be

* Hall’s Catarrh
eulars, free.

F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O.

Sold by Druggists, 75c. -

cured by

Cure. Send for cir-

of debt.—Smart Set.
Minard’s Liniment Relieves Neuralgia.

A new and nourishing luncheon
dish is made by covering the bottom
of a baking dish with squares of toast.
Over this put a layer of tomatoes
peeled and cut up, then a layer of
pecan nuts, after this a layer of rice,
then a mixture of nuts, rice and to-
matoes and finally bits of toast. Bake
and serve hot.

Fortune sometimes overtakes a man
who is not a fugitive.

sEspecially night coughs. Na-
ture needs a little help to quiet
bthe irritation, control the in-

flammation, check the progress
fof the disease. Our advice is
—give the children Ayer’s
Cherry Pectoral. Ask your
doctor if this is his advice also,
He knows best. ‘Do as he says.

We publish our formulas

; We banish aleohol

from ourm
Wf you think fooet ation ie of triding
coasequence, just ask yourdoctor, He
will disabuse you of that notion in short
order. ‘‘Correct it, at once!’’ he will
say. Then ask him abeut Ayer’s Pills.
A mild liver pill, all vegetable.
—— Made by the J.C Ayer Oc., Lowell, Mass.

Grease a plate with lard and set it
where ants abound. They prefer lard
to anything else, even sugar. Placea
few sticks around the plate for the
ants to climb up on. Powdered borax

Take Hall’s Family Pills for con-
stipation.

Belle—Did Fred find marriage as
elevating as he thought it would be?
* Jack—No; it failed to lift him out

the Scriptures,

The notion lobdsely floating about
thé’ churches is that the Bible came
jown from heaven, cleanly printed,
ficely bound in morocco and gilt-
adged,. with a bookinarker against
that text which has been erroneously
made to declare. that every Scripture:
is inspired’ of God. This heaven
sent, volume is ‘incapable of-etror in
the; minutest detail. .“Every sentence,
avery word and letter and punctua-
tion mark is infallibly guatanteed by
thes Holy. Ghost! Nobody, to the
knowledge of the present writer, hus
ever said that he. holds quite that
theory of inspiration. But if the popu-
lar idea of /the. Bible were analyzed
it would warrant the inference. And
this infallibility is in practice claim-
ed for the Bible as printed in the
English tongue and read in our
churches! Yet all the world knows,
or should know, that. the revised
version which we now posvess is based
on the authorized version, which is
an improved edition of the bishops’
Bible, which was a bad copy of Cran-
mer’s Bible, which was based on
Coverdale’s translations of Dutch
and Latin translations and Rogers’
version of Tindall’s Bible! And if
we expect to find rigidly accurate
messages from the: very mind of God,
conveyed in a version of a version
which is a translation of a transla-
tion, we are demanding the most mir-
aculous of all conceivable miracles.
‘Popular misinformation about the
Bible seems to begin with the pur-
chase of a copy in a bookstore. Yet
the adventures of the Bible docu-
ments before the day of the printing
press constitute one of the romances
of history.’ The earliest Hebrew copy
of the Old Testament of undisputed
date goes back only to the tenth cen-
tury A. D. For a period, therefore,
of not less than 1,200 years and per-
haps of 2,000 copy had been succeed-
ing copy, generatjon following gener-
ation in the world of books even as
in the human.race. Twenty centuries
of “editions’”’ had gone the way of all
papyri, even as twenty centuries of
human beings had gone the way of
all flesh, and this parchment was
heir of all those ages.in the foremost
files of—books. Had no copyist made
one mistake in the course of twice a
thousand years? As compensation for
the late date of our Hebrew authori-
ties can be set, it is true, the scru-
pulous fidelity with which the Hebrew
amanuensis did his work, his rever-
ence for the letter of the document
on which he was engaged and the
consequent comparative purity and
reliability of the text.

Couldn’t Scare: Them.

A Denver man who rents his motor
car by the trip or hour was seated
in the machine with a friend for
business when a young couple from
the country came up. It.was plain
to be seen they were bride and groom.
The young man from the country
said they wanted to see Denver. He
arranged for the motor tar man to
take them for an hour’s trip and paid
the charges in advance. The country
couple took the back seat. The
driver’s friend sat in the front seat
with him.

“I’m going to have some fun,” said
the driver in a low tone to his friend.
“T’m going to run fast and scare those
hayseeds.”’

He ran to the east edge of town and
then let the machine out to the limit.
It rocked and jumped till the driver’s
friend became alarmed.

“Say,” he said, ‘‘you’d better ease
up on it or you'll kill us all.”

“Look around and see if the bride
and groom are scared,’’ was the re-

ly.

F Bators the other man could turn
and look the farmer touched the
driver on the shoulder.

“Hey, feller,” he said, “here’s an-
other dollar. Make her run fast, will
you?”

An Alabama Sandwich.

“Gimme a sandwich.”

“Rye or white?”

“Rye.”

“Pint or quart?”

This dialogue may be heard at the
counter of a large number of “dairy
lunch” rooms in the state of Ala-
bama. The last question relating to
the bulk of the sandwich, refers to
the size of the flash of “rye” to be
found between the halves of bread
loaves cut to look like oyster sand-
wich.

Since Alabama went dry-there has
been an enormous increase in = the
output of baker’s bread.

Spirited Repartee.

In making a sharp turn the rear
end of a street car struck an express
wagon laden with jugs of whisky.
Nearly all the jugs were precipitated
to the pavement, with the natural
disastrous result. The driver of the
wagon alighted and, pointing at the
pile Of demolished earthenware, said
to a bystander, ‘““That’s hades, ain’t
it?”

The spectator, who happened to be
a minister, replied, ‘‘Well, my friend,
I don’t know that I would say that,
but it’s at least the abode of depart
ed spirits.” ;

Millais and Newman.

The author of the life of Millais
tells the following-anecdote: When
Cardinal Newman came to sit to the
artist for his portrait, he asked where
he was to pose. i

“Oh, your eminence, on that emi-
nence, if you please,” answered Sir
John, pointing to the models’ dais,
and, seeing him hesitating, added,
“Come, jump up, you dear old boy.”

Little Danger of Earthquake.
Geologists say that New York city
is as unlikely to be disturbed by un
earthquake as any place on the globe.
i is possible that the east end cf
Jong

sland or the sandy shore of
New Jersey may some day slip into

| the Atlantic ocean, but the rock foun-

dations of the city are likely to stand
until the final “wreck of matier and
the crash of worlds.” re

‘ss

SEE Ente mn ae
bite 2 ‘ :

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‘THE TABER
ZAM-BUK SAVES
A FARMER’S ARM.

Some Sensational Proofs of its Heal-
“Ing. Power. ) *

‘ wend oe ‘

Every’ day brings interesting in-
stahces to light of the wonderful heal-
ing power of. Zam-Buk, the _ herbal
‘balm. _Mr. Wm. Snell, a Langen-
burg, (Sask.), ‘armer, says: “I saved
my arm by using Zam-Buk. I had a
terrible scalding accident and the arm
after the injury ‘took the wrong way.’
When't started to'use Zam-Buk it. was
all swollen up and. discolored, and I
feared it would have to come off. In
‘a few days Zam-Buk killed the poison,
reduced the swelling, and finally ‘heal-
ed the arm completely.” ‘

ECZEMA CURED. Mr. E. J. Cu-
sick, of 249 Wilson St., Hamilton,
says:—‘Every- winter I, used. to have
eczema on the back of my hands.
Last winter I was especially bad—so
bad that I had to be off work for
three weeks. While suffering acutely
I was advised to try Zam-Buk and did
so. I could not have believed any-
thing coyld have héaled so quickly!
It just seemed to dry up and clear
away the sores and in a wonderfully

short time my hands were quite
cured.”

PILES CURED. Mr. Neil Devon,
of Webbwood, (Ont.), says:—‘‘For

eight vears I tried all kinds of things
for piles, but I got nothing to do me
any good until [I struck Zam-Buk!
That quickly worked a complete cure.”

Zam-Buk heals all skin diseases,
cuts and bruises, eczema, scalp sores,
ulcers, chapped places, scrofulous ail-
ments, poisoned wounds, swollen
glands,, boils. As an embrocation it}
cures rheumatism, sciatica, ete. All
druggists and stores sell at 50c. a
box or from Zam-Buk Co., Toronto.
3 boxes for $1.25. Send 1c. stamp for
dainty trial box.

Old London Clubmen’s Wager.
The rage for gambling at White’s
‘and Almack’s léd to most outrageous
betting, as to which Walpole _ tells
what he calls a good tale :—

A man dropped down in a fit before
the door and was carried inside; the
club instantly made bets as to
whether he would die or not, and
when a‘ doctor was called in to at-
tend him he was interfered with by
the members, because, they said, his
ministrations would affect the fairness
ot the bets.—London Chronicle.

The change of dietary that comes.
with spring and summer has_ the
effect in weak stomachs of setting up
inflammation, resulting in dysentery
and cholera morbus. The abnormal
condition will continue if not attend-
ed to and will cause an exhaustive
drain on the system. The best avail-
able medicine is Dr. J. D. Kellogg's
Dysentery Cordial. It clears the sto-
mach and bowels: of irritants, coun-
teracts the inflammation and _ res-
tores the organs to healthy action.

Repeat it:—‘‘Shiloh’s Cure will
always cure my coughs and colds,”

Wear sufficient clothing. Remember
that flannel
a doctor’s bill, and that warm stock-
ings and weather-proof boots arg
cheaper luxuries than bottles of cough
mixture.

CEYLON

The slight trouble of looking for
the name “Salada” on a ‘package of
tea is well repaid by the satisfaction
you have in drinking it. 48

Let & man overcome anger by love;
let him overcome evil by good, the,
greedy by liberality, the liar by truth.
—Buddhas

In the Autumn Rheumatism is so
general that all our readers so suf-
fering will be glad to hear that a let-
ter addressed to The Dr. Williams’
Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont., will
be to their advantage. Write to-day.

The Practical Parent.

“Father.” said the poetical youth,
“let us go into the autumn woods and
read the lesson of the trees.”

“That's jest whut | wuz-about to
suggest,” said the old man, “an’ we'll
take a couple of axes along an’ cut
down a few o’ them same trees an’
split ‘em into kindlin’ wood fer col’
weather purposes!”’—Atlanta Constitu-
tion.

Why Is It?
Oh, haven't you stood at the telephone,
The receiver in your hand,
And pleaded with “central!” tn humble
tone,
Persuasive and meek and bland:
“Please ring ‘em again. I can't stand
here
From now till the crack of doom.”
And hasn't the thing buzzed in your ear+
Z00-00-00-00m!
Zoo0-00-00-00m!
Zo0-00-00-00m!
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—Chicago Tribune,

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, Beating His Rival.

“What are you crowing abouti
Griggsby’s airship showed itself supe
rior to yeurs in every respect.”

“Yes, but as mine was tested on @
fine day the photographs turned out
perfect, and Griggsby made his ascent
when it was too dark even for a time

exposure."’—Puck,
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The Reason Why.

He was the much dreaded poor rela-
tion, and when he met his more fort-
unate brother in the street he was
alert to take advantage of any good
feeling that might be abroad.

“Come and dine with us to-night,”
the rich: man said graciously.

“Thank you” said the poor rela-
tion. . ‘But. wouldn’t to-morow night
do as well?” .

“Oh, yes, I suppose so,” said the
rich man. ‘“‘But where are you dining
tonight?” he asked curiously.

“Oh, at your house,’”’ was the reply.
“You see, your estimable. wife was
good enough to give me to-night’s in-
vitation.”

A Pleasant. Purgative.—Parmelee’s
Vegetable Pills are so compounded
as to operate on both the stomach and
the bowels, that they act along the
whole alimentary and excretory pas-
sage. They are not drastic in their
work, but mildly purgative, and the
pleasure of taking them is only equal-
led by the gratifying effect they pro-
duce. Compounded only of vegetable
substances the curative qualities of
which were fully tested, they afford
relief without chance of injury

Citiman—How are things with you?
Busy?

Subbubs—No, but I'll bet we’re
due to have a heavy fall of snow
pretty sgon.

Citiman—What* do you mean? I

don’t understand

Subbubs—Well, I stopped cutting
grass nearty two weeks ago.—Catholic
Standard and Times.

INDISPENSIBLE TO MOTHERS

“T am satisfied that, Baby’s Own

Tablets are indispensible to moth-
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Pierreville Mills, Que., and she

adds :—‘‘Before using the Tablets my
baby was cross, -peevish and not
thriving well; but the Tablets have
worked a great change and my little
one is well and happy.” This is the
vérdict of all mothers who have
used these Tablets. And better still,
mothers have the guarantee of a
government analyst that Baby’s Own
Tablets are absolutely safe—that
they contain’ not one particle of
opiate or poisonous soothing stuff.
Sold by .all medicine dealers or by
mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr.
Williams Medicine Co. Brockville,
Ont.

Vlace a cup containing vinegar on
the. stove near the pan in which you
are cooking cabbage or onions and tne
odor will not spread wl! over th?
house.

Repeat.
it: —“Shiloh’s Cure will always
cure my coughs and colds.”

It was stated during the hearing of
a divorce case at Detroit that a girl
had offered a wife £1,000 for her hus-
band, and that the wife had accepted
the c ffer.

Minard’s Liniment Cures Burns, Etc.

The best means to prevent loss of
hair, when it shows a tendency to
fall out, is to cut it short and then
shampoo the scalp two or three times
a day wit.. cold water, dipping the
tips of the figers in ice water, then
rubbing the scalp till red.

Wealth is nothing, position is noth-
ing, fame is nothing; manhood is
everything.

A pretty girl is apt to be less-inter-
esting than the bank account of a
plain old maid.

A few slices of raf onion left in
saucers about a room are recommend-
ed for taking away the odor of fresh
paint. The onion should be renewed
each day for two days or so.

HE discomfort of
saw-edged linen
is almost equal to the
drudgery of the me-
thod that causes it.

Celluloid
Starch does .¥
not fray your
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it thoroughly
penetrates the fa

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sufficient stiffness
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,her position ‘on the ocean bed was lo-

iN

- JAMAICANS. GET TREASURE.

American Students Find Britons Al-
ready Hard at Work.

The expedition composed of Har-
vard students, which started recently
on the schooner Mayflower from New }.
York in search of sunken treasure in
these waters, ‘will likely have’ to modi-
fy the original’ plans...

The tteasure seekers intend to
search for.a Spanish galleon, which
sunk many -years.ago, but the Ameri-
can expedition has been anticipated
by a Jamaican syndicate, which char-
teréd: a schoorér; and,” after an’ in-
pega search, returned to Monteo’’

ay.

The Jamaicans occupied :. several
weeks in their gold hunting trip and
had exciting experiehces with : hurri-
canes. The galleon was not found, but

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cated, the wreck having broken to
pieces years ago. Divers were sent
down and a nutnber of Spanish coins
were recovered, but nothing of ‘any
great value. The leader of the ex-
pedition was the son of Sir Henry |.
\rthur Blake, who was governor of
Jamaica 1889-97.

The location of the wreck which is
believed to be near Silver Bay, be-
tween. Puerto Plata and Turk’s Is-
fand, has been visited frequently dur-
ing. the course of the last few centur-
ies, first by an expedition fitted out
by the Duke of Albemarle, who was
governor of Jamaica in 1687. Even as
late as 1902, 10,000 ‘‘pieces of eight’’
were brought inte Kingston -harbor
by a-party of divers.

In the case of the latest expedition
which has returned the tempestuous
weather interfered greatly with diving
operations. It is intended to refit and
undertake a more systematic search
at any early date.

MACREADY'S WIDOW.

Second Wife of Famous Actor Passes
Away: at Age of 81.

A link with the memorable past is
snapped by the death of Mrs. Cecile
Louise Frederica Macready, which o¢-
curred at Weston-super-Mare, Eng-
land, recently at the age of 81. Mrs.
Macready, nee Spencer, married the
celebrated actor, Wm. Chas. Ma-
cready, on April 8,- 1860. He was
then. 67, and deceased lady 38. She
was Macready’s second wife. Young
Macready, himself the son of an act-
or, when only 18, essayed the thar-
acter of Hamlet at Newcastle, and
he records in his ‘‘Reminiscences”
the reflection that ‘“‘total failure in
that character is a tare occurrence.”
There also he played in ‘‘The Game-
ster’ with that great actress, ‘Mrs.
Siddons. This accomplished lady
encouraged him, and gave him\ some
advice. She said, ‘“‘You are on the
right way; but study, study, study,
and do not marry until you are 30.”
Macready acted on this counsel; he
did study, and he did not marry until
1823, when he married a Miss Cath-
erine Frances Atkins at St. Pancras
Church. This lady died in 1852, and
eight years later Macready mar-
ried the lady whose death is now an-
nounced. Macready himself passed
away thirteen years later, in April.
1873, at Cheltenham, leaving a gon
-and a daughter by his first wife and
a son by his second. wife. . :

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Dyring a visit to Winchester, some
time ago, Lord Alverstone presided at
a public dinner given by the mayor.
He told mary amusing _ stories,
amongst them one of a friend of his.
who had asked for-a small loan. Lord
Alverstone, having nothing upon him
at that moment but a sovereign, gave
it. A third acquaintance, who at |
witnessed the transaction, remarke
to Lord Alverstone later that he would
never see his money again. ‘‘Non-
sense!’ said Lord Alverstone; but, as
the -friend. was very positive on the
subject, thty had a small bet upon it.

Some months later, meeting-Lord Al-
verstone by accident, the betting
friend asked if his lordship had ever
received the money from their mu-
turl acquaintance.

“No,” replied Lord Alverstone, ‘‘but
onty this morning I received a note
from him, which will more than re
pay me for my loss. Knowing that
the time is past at which he was to
repay the loan, I wrote to him, and
this morning received the following
answer: :

“Dear Lord Alverstone,—Enclosed
please find a postal order for £1, for
I’m hanged if I. can!—Yours, etc.’”

Eating Dog Meat.

Prosvectors returned from the new
Ingenika gold fields in British Colum-
bia report having met with the great-
est hardships for lack of food. “After
nine months in the wilds one party
returned and said that it was found
Impossible to get food of any descrip-
tion at Fort Grahame, although a stay
of 17 days was made there, during
which time the men hunted moose;
in fact, they lived on game all the
time they were out. After exploring
the country at the head of the Stikine
and Laird rivers they struck for Mc-
Connell creek, where they found 26
men in the camp who were getting
ovt about $10 a day. z

It is deep digging here and bedrock
has not yet been reached, Food was 3f you are unsblé to obtain
scarce and the men on the creek kill- Knight” fe your town, wind name of
ed the dogs, over 100 dogs. beimg’ sac- nearest dealer aud 0c for full s
rificed for food. “Watson, and party meray
getting rid of two of their own. . ‘The F. F. DALLEY CO, -

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It is not affected by the heat.
No matter how hot the fire,
the stove stavs bright aye
when polished with ‘ Blac
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Shines quickly too—and always
ready for use. Keeps Stoves,
Grates, Ironwork, etc. fresh and
clean with practically no trouble,

“Black Rod’s” Unique Experiende.
Admiral Sir Henry Stephenson,
Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod,
once had the novel experience of be-
ing on board his ship during a mu-
tiny and knowing nothing whatever
about it until it was all over. He
has "been unwell for some time, and
one day he. was’ surprised to learn
that there had been a mild mutiny on
board. He immediately sent for his
flag-captain, Prince Louis of Batten-
berg, from whom he learnt that there
had been dissatisfaction emees some
of the. men, but of a tri nature.
It appeared that there were certain |
drastic orders to which the tars ob-
jected, but Prince Louis got ‘wind of
the small insurrection and ni it
in ‘the bud by his firmness ¢
Thoughtful of the admiral’s ill-health,
he had kept the little disturbance to
himself in order to spare him annoy-
eace

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At, same eaaiaialbeaaee eat

We lave just received large ship-
ments of the following goods: .

_High-class PICTURES from $1. 00
to $9.00. _MIRRORS, stained ash

_shécks, 25 and 35 cents; polished |i

ash, 50c.. 75c., $1.00, $1. 25, $1.50.
Perforated Chair Seats, 15 and .20c.
each. BRISSELS’ CARPET
SWEEPERS at fixed retail prices,

$3.25, $3.75, $4.25, $4.50, $4.75.
LINO SHINE: to make), your old}

‘inoleum look new: § pint tihs, 85.
ets.; 1 pint tin, 60 cts.; 1 quart tin,
$1.00 ; Brushes, 30 cts. each.
TAPESTRY & CHENILLE CUR-
TAINS, $3.00 up. TAPESTRY &

CHENILLE TABLE § COVERS,
full size, $2.00 up. TAPESTRY

CUSHION TOPS, 40 cts. up.

THE TABER FURWITURE CO.

TheLecal improvement
Act, Village Act and
School Assessment
Ordinance

Notice is hereby given that under the provisions
‘ft the local Improvement Act, Village Act and
School Assessment Ordinance the Honourable Mr.
justice Beck has appointed Tuesday, Jan. 12th, 1909,
t Ten o'clock a.m. at the Court House in the City
of Lethbridge, for the holding @f a Court for the
© onfirmation of the Returns made under the provi-
ions of Section 91 of the Local Improvement Act
mm respect of the following Local Improvement Dis-
ificts, viz.: i;
local Improvement Districts 602 and 605.
And of Section 67 of the Vv illage Act in respect of
the following Villages, viz.:—
The Village of Stirling aad the Village of Stavely.

And of Section 19 of the School Assessment Or-
linance in respect of the following School Districts,
17.

School Districts Nos.
156, 1379, 1681 and 1455.

Dated at Edmonton this 10th day of November,

oo JOHN STOCKS,

Deruty MiniSter ov Pusctic Works.

458, 510, 584, 678, 694, 825.

ASE

Mail Contract

SEALED TENDERS,
aster General,
Noon on Friday the 15th January, 1909, for the

addressed to the
will be received at Ottawa until

His Majesty's

vears,

syance of Mails, on a proposed
Contract for four fourtcen times per week
ch way, between ‘aber and Railway Station, from

the Ist February next.

Printed notices ‘containing fircther information as
maditions of proposed Contract may be seen and
lank forins of Tender may be obtained at the Post
Mhee at Taber and at the office of the Post Office
isSpector

D. A. BRUCE,
Post Olbce Laspector.

Post Office Inspector's Office,
Calgary,

Dec. 4th, 1908. 44-31

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Synopsis of Canadian Horth-West

Land Regulations

AN’ person who is the sole head ofa family, or
any inale over 18 years old. may homestead a
juarter-section of available Dominion land in Mani
toba, Saskatchewan or Alberta
appear in person at the Dominsoa Lands Agency or
Sub-Agency for the district. ntry by proxy may
be m4de at any agency, on certain conditions, by
father, mother, son, daughter, brother or sister of
ymtending homesteader.

Duties. -Six months’ residence upon and cultiva-
hon of the land in each of the three years
teader may live within nine miles of his homestead
ona farm of atleast 50 acres solely owned and occu-
ied by himn or by his father, mother, son, daughter,
brother or sister.

A home- |

| Literary
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| the senate

_ NOTICE

‘Take notice that ms partnership existing between
SAMUEL ERVINE and ROBERT G. M. TODD
- this day been Dissolved by Mutual Consent, and

| Accounts owing the firm of Ervine & Todd will
be received by Semel’ Ervine and also Bills caniee
the said firm will be paid by him. d ey

SAMUEL ERVINE. :
, ROBT. G. M. TODD.

Taber, Alta., Nov: 16th, 1908. 43-2t

Taber Zree Presa
Advertising Rates on Application

Subscription $1:50 yearly, in advance
W. A. M. Bellwood, editor and manager

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1908

Notes and Comments

W. L. McKenzie King left Ottawa |
on Tuesday for New York, whence |
he sails Wednesday for England en

route to China. |

x |

; as a supper dish

Crowds still come from Dakota to!

buy land in the Taber district. The,
Alberta |
them and

land and the fine southern

climate are too much for
they cannot resist’
They say half of the peoqle of Diatto<
ta will move to Alberta as spon aa |

possible.

moving here.

x

Sir Richard Cartwright, the senior
member of the privy council, after
the prime minister, will, it is under-
stood, be the government leader in
in succession to Rk. W.
of Sir

somewhat ineon-

Scott, ex-secretary state.
though
venienced by physical disability, is
alert

his

mentally as and vigorous as

ever, and long experience in
public affairs, his intimate knowledge
of all Federal legislation and his rare
ability in parliamentary hfe amply fit
lead the

| dignity and tic.

, him to Upper House with

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Liter ary Sacigty

A very interesting meeting of the
Society was held in the

| Presbyterian Church orf Friday even-

The applicant must |

ing, the 11th inst.

The meeting began with a brief

sketch of the WHistory of Canada
from the death of Champlain to the
fall of Quebec, 1759.

In certain districts a homesteader in good) stand-
ine may pre-empt a duarter-section alongside his |
homestead. Price $3.00 per acre Duties— Must |
reside six months in each of sik years from date of |

iomestead entry (including the Gime
carn homestead
extra

required tc
patent) ahd cultivate fifty acres

A homesteader who has exhausted his homestead |

right and cannot obtain a pre-emption may take a
purchased bomestead in certain districts Price
$3.00 per.acre. Duties—-Must reside six months in
each of three years, cultivate @fty acres and erect a
house worth $300.00.

W. W. CORY,
Deputy of the Mimster of the Interior

N.B.— Unauthorized publicatéas of this advertise-
tnentavill not be paid for. 55-26t

Rogers-Cunningham °’:
Lumber Co., Ltd.

Wholesalers and

Retailers
N ALL KINDS OF

BUILDING
MATERIALS

eee TED ad

oe Srna 00

‘

| subject.

The chief feature of the
entertainment was a

evening’s

debate, ‘“Re-

‘solved that a Limited Monarchy
pis preferable to a Republic.”
Mr. Samuel Ervine and Mr. W.
B. Aubin supported the affirmative,
and Mr. R. P. Wallace and Mr. E,
R. Vickery the negative. Messrs.

Tiddy, Robinson, Dr. Lsng, Rodger
and R. Watson also spoke to the
The decision was given in

| | favor of the affirmative by a show of’

| hands.

| hand and’ give it a sharp pull
‘that will hurt a little.
'cramp will depart,

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| bishop of Canterbury,
one day at Dartford be took a Sunday

+a —

To those who suffer from cramp in
“the leg at night the following hint
may be ‘useful. When the cramp
comes on take a goood strong string
will do—wind it
roan the leg over the place that is

cramped and take

long garter

an end in each

-one
Instantly the
and the sufferer
can return to bed assured it will not |

come on again that night. |

HINDOO CASTE MARKS.

Tne Women of India Wear Them on
the Forehead.

The caste marks worn by women in
india arg confined to the forehead and:
ure more uniform than those affected |
by the men

The orthodox mark invariably worp
op religious and cerewoniat occasions
is a small suffrop spot in the center of |
the forehead. But the more popular |
and fashionable mark is a tiny. one |
made with a gluelike substance, usual-
ly jet black in color, which is obtained
by frying sago till it gets charred and |
then boiling it ip water.

twenties are sometimes partial to the |
use of small tinsel disks, purchasable |
in the bazaar at the rate of about |
half a dozen for a pile. To attach |

| the

| ent

Women who have not reached their ler

THE Sik EEL.

(* Will Bite Lony siter 1" Has Been
* Decapriarea: ‘

Rels are peculiar even, uinong fishes.
A’ strange and wiysiciiour race. the
difficulty ‘of killing them is vot: the
least of their peculiarities Very many
of us have heey nunosed by the ordi-
nary eel that bas ‘seized’ our wort and
then tangled up our line in. tts slimy
coils... You may cut-off the bead of ap
ee! in gah care ree ommended by
the 8. P. C.!A. cand Venve tts body full’.
of squirms and wriggies. for the’ eel
is a hateful and uncanny credtire. |
have been told that the true method is
first to. cut off the eels tail und that

after this the severatrwe of the hend
bfings ‘all lifé and movement to an
end. As to this Locannet say fort

only heard this recently and have not
since bad to deal with a sinuous eel
A correspondent bas cited’ an mstance
of a conger jeft apparently dead tor
twenty-four hours on the beach which
then bit three fingers from the hand of

a small boy who came to handle it. |

can well believe this) PE shall not easily

| forget the eerie shock which | had on

la certain occasion ip Wales of bad

caught a large eel on a night line set

for pike. We had severed his bead and—
left him for some hours on the Dank,

leaving a good hook in his guilet | In

evening be presented to a

small boy who bore him off in triumph
Half an tour later
the boy's mother appeared, with some
concern and indignation to relate that
the head had bitten the boy severeiy

when he tried to remove the excellent

hook And this was no conger! The
occurrence seemed to me like the hor

, ror in one of Kipling’s most weird sto-

ries of uncanny horror Whetber these
) posthumous wounds by eels betoken
the remnants of life in their severed
portions or a mere mechanical flicker
of the nervous system only the biolo

gist could say And perhaps be would
be only muking a guess St James’
Gazette.

Was

LOST THE CASE.

A Simple Test to Which the Defendant
Objected.

An English sotiejtor
a fruit broker in an action (brought in
a London for the recovery of
$100, the price paid for a consignment >
of figs which the plaintiff
be unfit for bunian food

was defending

court

declared to
Phe defense

alleged that. although moderately dis
calored by salt water, as the plaintitt
knew when he bought them. the tigs
were perfectly whiolesome The figs

were in court
The plaintiff,
his own ci

who conducted
was skillfully cross ex-
amined The trint was obviously
agaiust him, and once or
torted so hotly that the
ened foecommit him for

At length the coster

a coster,
Ise,
going
twice he re-
judvze threat-
contempt

grew desperate

and, turning to the opposing counsel,
hoarse and perspiring., be suid:
“Look here, guv'nor, you say them

tigs are good to eat, and | say they
ain't That's all between us,
ain't it? Now, selp we, if you'll eat
two of ‘them figs and you ain’t sick
immediately afterward Vil lose .my

case ™*

there is

The judge at once saw the. propriety
of this, suggestion and asked the law-
yer what he proposed to do

“Your honor is tryjug this case,
i,” was the reply

“No, no! The olfer is made to you,”
said the judge

A burried. consuitation
Counsel suggested that it
licitor’s duty to submit to the experi-
The solicitor refused ‘The bro-
ker himself was then asked if he wouid
risk it.

“What will huppen to me if I don’t?”
said he

“You'll lose the
his legal advisers

“Then,” said be hurriedly, “lose the
case, lose the case!” And so he did.

not

took . place.

wus the so

“ase,” replied both

There Was a Difference.
When Dr Randal! Davidson, arch-
was a curate,

school class ip a neighboring parish.
The subject wus King Solomon, and
after the lesson he proceeded to cate
chise the children

“Tell me, boys,” he said, “what was
the difference between Solomon and

other men?” No answer “Come,
come!” said the future archbishop
“Was there any difference, for in-

stance, between King Solomon and my-
self?” :

A tiny hand went up and a tiny
voice replied, “Please, sir, Solomon was
wise!’—London M. A. P.

Queer Plants.
The searcher for curiosities among
plants finds much to interest him in
Kkew gardens. ‘There™are

divided into two. sections ‘which, snap
together and imprison any insect which
alights upon them, plants which live
absolutely on air, without any root ip
the ground; walking plants, sleeping
| plants and pldnts which grow whiskers.

| And all these marvels cap be seen by

apy visitor for

Graphic,

nothing. — London

Peculiar Qualifications. .

“In choosing his. meh,” said the Sab-
bath school superintendent, “Gideon
did not select those who laid aside
their arms and threw themselves down

to drink, He took those who watched
with one eye and drank with the oth-
| er.”

A Moriologuf,
Tommy—Pop, what is the difference

these to the skin the commonest ma- | between a dialogue and a monologue?

terial used is the'gum of the jack fruit, |
quantities of which will be found stick-

ing to ‘a wall or pillar tn the house, | carries on a conversation with her bus-

ready for immediate use.

| Tommy's Pop— When two women talk,
my son, it’s a dialogue; when a woman
hand

it’s a woenolugue - Philadelphia

| Record

primroses,
_ which blister the hand if stroked, leaves

i}

|

The Earliest A:

ie Pete Se belors oh we
ve any record were ad and
“ally through the a hor of
ae hdos ane the aneher ip hare
a roke, there was ev vod roe an
Syor with the straight shank,
1 two curving: arms ovith ‘fattened
remities and tie chee crass teek.

1 process of stering oie of these ald
hers was a long ane mberidus one
was hove close up fe the capstan

r windlass; a man was let down by
pe to hook oul a. huge tackle,
hich the anchor. was then hoisted.
ill perpendicnlar, to a stout project-
i timber Then the lower end had
J be hoisted up horizontally by an-
‘her tackle and the whole made fast
In. the modern stockless anchor. a
chain is attached to fit at the balancing
point. and this is passed throngh a
pulley at the head of the anchor davit
When the anchor is high enongh. davit
and all swing round until the anchor

is over the billboard, where it) rests
aud is .seeured by chains.—London
Globe

Working !tn Steel Masks.

The workman wore a steel
with glazed eveholes, a rubber snit
tubber gloves and rubber boots. and he

carried a pair of tongs of silvery alu
minim

“In certain departments of the
plant” said) the dynamite manufac
turer, “all our workmen are dresse.t |
‘ike that. They must be. Otherwise
they would be smeared with chemicals

nd splashed with acids that wonld peut

Neir flesh like liquid fire”
Sut the aluminium tongs?"

“They are for lifting the gun cotton
utof its nitvic acid bath. Aluminiuin
is the only metal upon which the uitrice
veh has ue effect ™

He turned to the workman
“Evervthing all right.
aid.
“So,
from

George?” he

80," came

behind the

na sepulcbral answer
mask of steel

Slang of Other Days.
has always been a fruitful
for gie expansion of latwaiece
instances mimy be multiplied oof
respectable which were
vulgarisms. But.
there have been man,
for

Slang
source
and
vords
mee tahboaed
he other
lane pl
Viren th become
fo the purists As long ago ou th

tebrated letter writer Ulorace Wal

nié ised to speak of “sitting cuezlin
wad getting “drunk as an
eatin fo the
inent

pow
as
band,
ses in

use centuries

so never neceptable

owl’ Ther
the

the eis

disyy, ef one of Tiger t

tno writers of nt
cently ep Pranees Burne ape
mind phrases of the Ame:
an collece giv! of today,

“Po osmenked ont.’

know toad?”

Werth Worn:
nturs
coor Slane
for ou
“Did
and “‘l

us.
hanes, vent

ver such a bad
Ve vile cold.”
Hy; erbole.

A Rochester ole
omed to use sctentifie terms,
wrterstnd A epartat

with the reques
whenever he

Previn was

which tne

aceus

seople did ret
fian waited on tom
Nat odin
neh terms he would explain them On
he following: Sunday he used the term
nud added: “As uvgreed
Tbeg to explain tis word
ay that at this moment the whole a
my are sound usloep it
‘vould ie fe de, but if Tsay that
that is no hyper
The next day the
that the

the futu oe

ayperbae ou

Cons vat ny
perk
me-half are
but the
leputation ag

astery
trum)
n ealled to say
minister need not explain technical
terms The people would learn their
neanins ¥ frou a cictionary.—Rochester
Terald.

Hole, ae

At His Word.

Many postoflice names are queer
enouch to make one desire an explana
tion of them. Sometimes the explana
jon is queerer than the name itself A
tninister in) Cass county wrote to
Washington in behalf of the residents
of a growing hamlet. asking that a
postoflice be added to its institutions
The request was favorably received
ind he was asked to suggest a name |
that would be acceptable to, his neigh
hors. He replied that they were not |
iard to please so long’as the pame was
peculiar. The postoffice departunent
took bim at his word, and “Peculiar”

“is the name of the office to this day.

The Case of Emergency.

While on the mareh in ludia the pio
neer corporal of a famous Irish regi
ment went to'the quartermaster for a
loan of a came! to carry a spare tent

but the quartermaster refused, saying
“Tl have only the cart, and this spare

camel I am keeping for a case of emer
rency.”

‘Lhe corporal said, “Can’t you put the
case of emergency on the cart, str. and
lec me have the caimel?’’—Red Letter.

Wasteful Ignorance,

The ordinary waste of food in an
English middle class family would be
suflicient wholly to maintain a French,
family of similar station, and the
waste of food is at least largely due
to the ignorance of cookery which pre
vails among the classes from which
English domestic servauts are derived
—London Lancet

‘Would Like It Very Much.
“By the way.”
“how would you like to have your
steak 7?”
“Very much, tndeed;”, replied the
mild man, who bad been patiently
waiting for twenty minutes,

Exasperating.

Mrs, Subub—Oh, George, the cook
eft this morning, and the Outertowns
tre coming to dinner! Mr. ‘Subub—
Darn it! They always catch us be
‘aveen cooks!

It is not possible for men to be per-

fectly blessed and happy, except a ‘tew.
—Plato.

by

mask

ata tt een i oan einer sinh teenies

ED TET LY, LES NT ae eee mT ET TT Tae ney WONDERED BINT MCAT USO ANON TIEDC WSS WITT.” SEN WITS

Christmas Novelties in Men's Wear at

ont

sed |

Were Eto!

asked the waiter, |

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' SHOES, SLIPPERS, ere.

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ood THE NOR’-WEST FARMER

A $3000 Threshing Outfit, complete ; a 5400 Piano;
a 20-shoe Single Disc Drill, and many other Prizes—
over 220 in alim—will be given by THe Nor’-Wrst
FARMER to the persons making the closest estimate as

to the exact number of whole kernels,in five pounds of

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MAKE AN ESTIMATE NOW. By doing so you get the
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the Estimate First Received gets the Award.
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#,

Serie
Syndicate, Guaranty Bldg., Minnea- | Brown . purposes bringing

Lawrence Renner leaves \ to-mor-
row for Missouri, where he will visit
.| friends tor a time, ,

Do not forget that B. W. Wright,

‘| the jeweller, handles the famous W.
Fobs, Silverware, Cut Glass Pickard’s hand-painted china.

STATIONERY J. Weigand arrived from Leth-
Books, Fancy Boxes of Stationery. bridge to-day. We understand he

debi’ Cards, Pipes, Cigar Cases, | has*rented the Cousins’ hall building.
G., &e.

“Xmas Cards and Postcards

4DISON PHOTOGRAPHS
Amberol Records and Attachments

@vestlake’s
JEWELLRY AND Store

Xmas Gifts
WATCHES

Rings, Brooches, Lickate,
Stick Pins, Chains, Bracelets,

Mr. Frank Sherman has been re-.
‘elected ‘ by acclamation as President
of District No. 18 of the ‘U, M.W.
of A.

a Lethbridge purposes, buying and

opera.ing a coal mine for, city needs.
Forty acres will be purchased from
the Alberta Railway and Irrigation
Company.

STATIONERY

1908

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17,

; Sneak thieves are still operating
I OCALS the clothes lines on the south
4 side of the track.

much

on

If it continues

longer there is trouble for

somebody.
H. A. Suggitt of Coaldale is in

WANTED, on easy terms for Fas-
town to-day on business.

| tern client, a good half ‘section near
‘Taber, improved or otherwise.
perial Development Co., Ltd.,
1740, Lethbridge.

Im-
Box

Wanted, situation for youth (17).
Apply Free Press Office. 43-tf

® Roy Stanley left to-day for Lucan, }
nt., to spend Christmas with his

parents.

Mr.
summer here in the real estate busi-

'ness, left Sunday for
Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Wright of!

Lethbridge spent Sunday in town the | ing in the spring.
suests of Mr. and Mrs. B. W.} |
Wright. ‘ |

We understand he purposes return-

Campbell & Anderson have
It repre-
| sents a prosperous homestead scene

a very

neatly dressed window.
For SALE,—West half lot 22, all|

ot 23 and east half lot 24, block 3.—| 5, winter and it certainly is proving

> ¢
Apply Quong Sang Co., P'O. Box 95, | quite an attraction.

Lethbridge. 43-4tp |
' Herman Jensen returned last week |
So popular has tho British Navy from a visit with friends iu Utah.
hecome that for the present recruit- We understarid Herman purposes:|

ng has be Ss mnnded for ¢ xcept : F
1g has been suspended for ull exeey lattendiug the agricultural

‘Tainter, who has spent the |

Minneapolis. |

college |

Ralph L. Reid and B, W. Reid
leave Friday for Algona, Iowa, to
spend the winter. : 4

Silas Myers of. Shelburne, Ont.

arrived to-day with a car of effects}

and stock, and will move to his farms
near ' Taber. i

William Fisher of tacnadd, Ont.,
arrived Monday with a car of effects
to settle on his farm near Taber.

“H. L. Helgerson and’M. L. Hel:
gerson of Minneapolis are in \own’
to-day.

Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Aubin and
little daughter leave Friday night for
theirhome at Calgary. Mr. Aubin!
will return soon after Christmas.

A concert and dance for the bene-
fit of Mr. John Evans wil! be given
at Woodpecker on Dec. 28th. Doors
open at 7.30, concert begins at 8.
There should be a good turnout at |
this concert as it is for a most worthy |
cause.

Liconse Inspector Nimmons and
Goyernment Detective Rudd had|
Ione Lewis, who resides in one of
the houses near the river, up before |
W. A.- Aubin, J.P., to-day on a
charge of selling liquor without a
She was fined $50 and

license.
costs.

D. H. McArthur, Wm. Bell and!
EK. H. Kalding of Botineau, N.D.; J. |
L. McLean, John Olsen, R. D. Kay,
Jno. Defry, G. West, T. L. Kerns,
I. L. Otter and W. A. Otter of Glen-
burn, N.D., were in town Wednes

‘Bryan Exceeds

\day. We understand quite a num-

‘|ber bought land in this vicinity frem |

| Mr, MeArthur-and will move here at |

lan early date.
i}

certain mechanical ratings.
been: 5° there

B. W. Wright, the jeweller, has farmer.

sust received for the

11th
rulite be-
Taber
suitably

thi
‘istmas trade . F
Christmas trade . Friday evening,

On
ludy’s brown fur
of track
Finder

Lost

wa fine stock ef ladies’ solid. gold

Q ovis and
3 to $50.

Walter
frank on Monday

Inst., a

chains. LPrices from

tween south and

| Opera House. re-
warded on leaving same with R. W.

‘Long at C.P.R. depot.
}

Coombs returned — fram

a

and has accepted

© positi t the Canada West Coa! .
position at the Canada West Coa i Sioa, Meee Biss

Mines. All will be pleased to see Bt 5

: ey E | Magrath and family, has departed for
Walter back. : 3

. Ottawa, where they will remain

H. W. Hogarth moved out to his: until after the session of Parliament.
wmestead yesterday. Hoe just se-' They have taken a residence in the

| capital.—Lethbridge Herald.
a large amount of im- |

‘ured his land last summer and _ al-

vcady has

The Soetety |

‘will hold their first annual seed fair

Taber Agricultural

provements made.

PLease Norn.-—Copy for changes

of advertisements must be in the assembly hall on Triday, Jan. 15th,
otice not later than Wednesday 1909, when prizes will be awarded |
soon. This is an absolute necessity. 5. the various classes. Prize lists |

lease note this fact.

f you are thinking of purchasing | aes a ;
ie ane inane ov PurenasinB | The Rock Springs Sootless Coal
» watgh or anything in the jewellery

'Co., the
pit wilh carvainly ily yell ke e and the Central Coal Co. sre getting
vet B. W. Wright's fine stée ke of ina lot of machinery and fittings al-

watchst,glockes ahd soMbilery. / most every day. These companies
The installation of. the new officers
of Dorie Lodge No. 31, A.F, & A.M.,
will take place on Monday evening,
28th. The District Deputy
Master to

will soon have their mines fitted up
‘in first class shape for business and
ithen the coal will have to come out.
! We uuderstand the C.P.R. will build

Dec. 2.
a spur to these mines.

“rand is expected be

present.

We want land «en

,e@wners to send us at once minute

Mr. Brown, manager of the Ly-
ceum Theatre, Lethbridge, brought a
jnumber of the star performers who
wiand exact descriptions of choice dry | theatre to

|
and }

have appeared in his

aoldings at. close figures and easy! 'Taber and gave a two-nights’ enter-
terms near railroad. Lethbridge or tainment in the opera house. The
Taber preferred. No other than| attendance both nights was good and
shoice lands near railroads will be} eyeryhody felt well pleased with the

Atlantic-Pacific We understand Mr.
further
jcompanies to Taber the near
when he will no doubt be

Land | performances.

polis, Minn. 34-4¢ 39tf | in
A quiet wedding was solemnized | future,

last in St. | well received.

on Thursday evening
Theodore Clureh by the Rev. D | The Alberta Conference of the!
Jones, when Mr. John Connor, pro-| pyotherhood of St. Andrew will be

prietor of the livery stable south of | held in Edmonton from February
the station, was united in the bonds | the 18th tothe 21st (inclusive),
‘of holy wedlock to Miss Violet Ar-)jg99.. This will be the second an-
blaster. Mr. and Mrs. Connor left
oh their wedding trip to points in|
B.C. amid the best wishes of a host

of friends.

nual conference to be ‘held in Al-
berta; the first was held in Calgary
‘last February and was very success-
| ful. The local Chapters having as-
Neta Evelyn Kilgrow, the little; sumed the responsibility for the suc-
nineteen months’ old daughter of| cess of this forthcoming conference,
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. W. Kilgrow, met | are now issuing preliminary notices
with a painful accident yesterday. | to all Chapters in the Province; and
The little girl was standing on aj will be glad to hear from anyone
chair and, losing her balance, fell | interested. All communications,
backwards, striking the back of her! whether containing suggestiuns or,
head on the floor. Medical aid was| enquiries will be gratfully received
immediately summoned and the in-|by the Secretary.
juries attended to, but the little one| Imperial Bank, Edmonton. It is
has suffered intense pain, At time | hoped that all interested in Brother-
of going to press we understand she | hood work will take an active part
is now improving nicely. A little|in insuring the success of the con-
more and the resulé might have! ference; and that all Chapters. in the
proved fatal. Diocese will be well represented.

and fitting himself as an expert |

and poultry exhibition at the L.D.5.4

_will be distributed in the near future. |

Scranton Coal Mines Co. |

R. 8, Young, |®"

‘Agricultural
— Society

ELECTS OFFICERS

The Taber Agricultural Society
| | held their annual meeting on the 9th

inst. and elected their officers for the

coming year. There was a very
goed attendance and much _ interest

manifested.

R. A. VanOrman.

First Vice-President

President

~—A. Rawlins.

Second Vice - President — B. A.
Stringham.

Directors—G. W. Qufbell, KE. T.
Westlake, Isaac Biglow,.1. LL.
Hélman, B. R. MeMullin, Peter
Hammer, Thos. B. Hull, Alex.

Campbell, Hans Hansen.

Agricultural Experiment Commit-

tee—B. R. McMullin, Lsaac
Biglow, E. T. Westlake.
Auditors—Geo. C. Millar, S. J.!

Layton.
The Directors wopincas G. W.
| Quibell to the respousible position of
Secretary-Treasurer, a position Mr.
Quibell has most ably filled ever
since the organization-of the Society.

Comparatively little interest was
taken in the elections Monday as is

shown by.the very_small vote po!led. |
The result was apparently a foregone |

conclusion and most of the electors
remain at home.

The vote stood—Byard Smith 74,
jJohn Haynes 71, A. L. Wood 60,
Adam» Russell 12. As three coun-
cillors were required the three first |
named were elected.

The council for 1909 will be com-
posed of :good, shrewd business men,
men who are capable of coping with

and all questions that will come
ore them. The personnel of the
council is as follows :—

, Mayor-—-W,. W. Douglas.

‘ Councillors—A, Beck, A. Camp- |
bell, FB’ R. Davis, Jno.-Haynés,
Byard Bmith, A. L. Wood.

| the penalty of the law.

logical Discovery.

The officers elected are as foltows: |

The Elections

ROC NTTUERES STUD WENN

tome Rare and’ Peeuliar Visual apa
‘Used In Medicine.

A writer in Wissen fuer Alle throws
}roure tnteve’ 15): on rare and pe-
voliar: drugs. sron, he points ont,
Would strike an q:cidary observer as
lecidedly expensiye at $13 a pound (to.
\hange mar..s iutd our coinage) until
tuid that it is ’co. goed of the central
| small: portions: oni,” of .the flowers. of
-| the + ractts, 70.000. of: whieh it takes to
{uke a pound. Ailar-of ‘roses sells. at
$112 odd: per pound, and it takes
10,.Y00 poulcs, or nearly five tons. of

~The Limit: ACs

| The Defeated ‘Prbssbausies chine
didate Shoots: Ducks in Texas

rn

Catveston, Tex., Dec. 16..—-Wm. J

Il. the old quarrel
revived, nnd the overdue duel was
yeerht the plain of St. Germain |
fh all the formality of the ancient
“‘ielal combats and in the presence |
if the whole court. Jarnac was aveak-
er and less agile than his. adversary, |
ho was one of the noted swordsmen
of the time, but he had taken lessons
from an Ttalian bravo. In the duel
'arnac waited for an opening and
| then dealt La Chateigneraie a heavy
land une xpected stroke which ham-
‘strung him. This was in 1447. Ten
vears later Jarnae was a captain in
the defense of St. Quentin. Eventual-
ly he met his fate in a duel. But the
“coup de Jarnac” is historic in the an-
oals of sword play.—Argonaut.

plead ynilty to protect Bryan from| ‘evion of Henry

on

ae

~ Important Geo- |

Human Footprints Found in
Inter-Glacial Clay Many Feet,

» -Below the Waters of ihe Bay

Toronto, Dee. 14.—Thirty-saven

: Monkeys and Parrots.
feet down in blue clay under Toronto

A lung specialist was talking about

a famous scientist who had contracted
consumption from a lot of consumptive

| monkeys that he had been experiment-

bay they have found human foot-

prints. -Phis find inter-gl: acial clay,

deposited from fifty to one bundred’ 8g Upen.
| “This should be a lesson and a warn-
| ing to us all,” he said, “for nothing is
portant geological discovery of the) more dangerous to the lungs’ health
Charcoal | than to bave a monkey about the
. house. Practically all monkeys have |
remains of burnt consumption in this climate, and it is |
discovered in inter-glacial clay in the} just as easy to take consymption from |
Don val&y, but nowhere in America’ #2 Monkey as from a man or woman. |
: 4 . It is the same with parrots. They, too, |
have traces of human beings been pave consumption. ‘and they, too, are |
A gang! most ‘apt to give the disease to those
who pet them. As for nye, rather than
| live in the same house with a pet mon-

| thousand years ago, is the most im-

period made in America.

wood have been

discovered of such antiquity
in Haney and Miller’s waterworks
tunnel laid bare-for over thirty feet | key or a pet payrot I would take a cot

a strate of blue clay six feet wide, in| In the hopeless: ward of some con-

q| sumptives’ hospital.”

which there were over a hundre

imprints of human feet encased in

. A Wedding Day Reminder.
William James, the famous psychol-
. ogist of Harvard, said at a dinner in
inches long was also) poston:
found. The fodtprints were found! “An odor often brings: back mein- |
70 feet below the level of the bay. | ! ories that we had thought buried for-
ever. AS we regard some strange |
landscape it often seems to us that
level some imperfect footprints weraj we have been just here before. The
lamoovared. All the footprints, ex ‘oiidest, the most momentous associa-
| tions oftentimes attach themselves to
cepting a few which went sideways,; vce trifiing things.

moceasins. At the same level near |
the footprints a piece of inter-glacial |

wood sone 12

{Some hundred feet south at the cae

were pointing towards Toronto.. 4 Ney, “Thus at a Thanksgiving dinner that

' varied from slight depressions to|two| ! once 4ttended the hostess said: to a

tnahow] | sour faced man on my left:

inches in depth. . | “May I help you to some of the
Prof. Coleman, of Toronto dniver-! boiled rice, Mr. Smith?

| sity, says it is the most important |

|

| “‘Rice? No, thank you—no rice for

|,me,” Smith answered vehemently. ‘It

| geological discovery ever made in|'Is associated with the worst mistake of
| America. | my life.”

| Costs of Office.

On the day after his election the
chief magistrate of. a certain town in
the Midlands who enjoys the reputa-
tion of being rather “near” in money
matters was asked for a subscription
to the local football elub.

“I really can’t do it,” he replied. |
| “Just look at the outlay I’ve already
been put to through accepting office!” ;
And he produced a smal! ledger in-

For Railway at Ottawa scribed on the .cover “Mayoralty Ex- |
'

Present Alberta's
| Claims

\. ; ; | penses.” On, the top-line of the first |
parcel inside page was the entry, “Dress suit,
€2.”—Reynolds’ ' Beeene, i

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| Toronto, Dee. —Hon. C.

| Oras, Attorney-General; of Alberta, | ue Prt An Aral Hp nas |
e Philosopher—Tell me what a

left Toronto last night for Ottawa,| person reads and I can tell you what |

| where it is said he will interyiew the} he is.. The Dyspeptic—Not always. |

There's my wife, for instance. She's
always reading a cookery book. The
Philosopher (confidently)}—Well? The
Kichappaageanie' she’s no cook!

| Federal Government in relation to
the Provincial Government's policy
of railway expansion which is to -be
inaugurated at next session, ~The
Dominion Government will be asked |
for aid to construct lines: in the pro-
blac

A Humane Woman.
The Cabman—Gimme your bag, dady.
and I'll put it’on top of the cab.
Oatcake (as she gets in)—No; that
horse of yours has. got enough to
rn carry it-on my lap.—Lendon
Bits, °

Mrs.
poor,
Bash Seige vat

An expert says that a razor should |
| never be stropped or used unless it
| has first been warmed.

Do not measure your eniovmert by |
| the amount of money spent in pevine |
j | tae it.

TABER LANDS FOR SALE

Known as the C.Y. Ranch Lands

“OK ‘wil elk ‘any ‘pt the’ fllontng

earn half-sections as stated
talon fot the. Grice of $915.00 ger

; $7.50 an acre cash, $1.50 per

acre say January, 1909, and $1.00
pet acre each year thereafter untif
paid: for, with interest at bed per’

Bryan ‘wis given a taste of the Texis roses, to.obtain oue pound of the dil.’ ee we ba, os
laws when he was: charged with | Saahook arti ed niet end root of wv # } ioe aL raf . \
monks s*said to be every | WOESE J. v.4..0008 :
having exceeded the limit in the) cc isiy-est } on ex ant. the dose being | West # ......... 9° 11. 19°
destruction of mallard and canvass- | one +ix-huuuredth of # grain. It issold | North Bast}... 19. 11 17 4
back ducks at. Lake Surprise. The pa he rie of $1¢ 8 per. oone “ ' North Kast}... 20. 11 17 4
laws permit no one hunter to kill | deus te vepera me 00 the | Routh: raate..: 20 IF 17
ea animal wo in ch of rare drugs, North W } 21 lt 1
more than 25 ducks in any one “day, | the write the musk of the | North West¢... 1 4
and these he can neither sell nor | - Asiutle deer, which at $24 to $30 an A vo i 7 v4 ‘
Pe mut @ a op'ie to the wily or ‘ASE Z «+.
ship. Lake Surprise, the game pre- hunter. Im sou.e of tie tropical seas a |SouthHastt... 19 11 17 4
serve of Banker Moody, is located in} floating, sweet’ sui Jing mass of am+!South Kast}... 21. 11 17 #4
Chambers County, and is only ac-| bersris is mer with worth at Aeboagri sig habs 146 11 17 =~-4
: SO per on or £190 per pound in | Rast $ (......... 18. 11 17 .&@
cessible by water.. The game warden | 3.4 jyarke: ie a ubergris ts said t0 | North Kastd.. 16 11 4217 °@
of Chambers County had been tipped he the dixex i 1 i ‘iry product of the | South West... 16 11 17. 4
‘that the Bryan party of four hunters | pen ® i a | West 4 30 11 17 &£
‘nother pe vrocuct in use as aj.) yee
were slaughtering ducks without re- |, ie fan 0 ton - the pure venom | Hast ee 30. 11 17 &.
gard to number. lof the r viven occasionally South East 4 eee 7 11 17 4
- Giining access to the preserve he}! Mmalivue ft son er fever Ser sand f "1 i ;
or VAs) eee t
counted the dead ducks and found THE “COUP DE JARNAC.” North East} .;. 22. 11 17 &
1145 an average of thirty-eight, or| South Westt... 22 11 17 4
thirteen above the limit. The three | A French Adec> and the Incident Upon | North ast}... 7 11 17 4
‘other members had been compliment- } “ch It Rest. | North West}... 7 11 #17 .&
ing Bryan on his marksmanship and | Ratt ‘coup de Jarnae™ has become a | North $......... 1 1 WwW
Meoneh proverh, and it serves to dis-
had credited him with half of the} -j,enish a stroke as decisive as un- ————
|sport_until the officer appeard on the} fovereen v hic) intervenes for the set-. J. J WHITE,
. : {| 'lenent of any aTair. The adage rests | ° r
scene: when Col. Moody and his dake pon an Incident in the life of Gui | 38, Northumberland Street
associates declared that Bryan’ had) os. jjot. geperers Ce Jarpac. a noble’ :
killed ‘ less than twenty. Charges; \ ‘he.conrtof Francis 1. THe lie pass | GUELPH, Ont.
/are preferred against the quartette. tee . aia ie aah - : ating ae |
a | ae | ae “m evle sing
It is understood three of them will) \, ,....ver, poitaae the duel. At the sue. |

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~ from babyhood it. ts rather difficalt, to,

_ find “Miss Norwoo

-Aanother 50 cents,

Kitty, Sam and the
Peacemaker.

By COLIN 5. COLLINS.

"Copyrighted,
Literary Press. Sin

1908, by - Associated

When It has been “Sam” and “Ixitty”

pass suddenly to the “Mr, Hastings”
a” stage. Both Sam
and Kitty felt the strain, though each’
took mental obligation to do. nothing
that in any way might be construed
Anto an overture of friendship.

It had all started innocently enough.
Xitty on her way to the postoffice en-
countered Jim Saunders. She regarded
Saunders as a persistent pest, but she
could not very well refuse his sugges-
tion that they stop in at the drug store
and have a glass of soda.

Then it happened that they turped
fntdé Belding street in animated con-
versation, and Sam could not know
¢hey had met just around the corner,

Of all the summer visitors to Au-
®urnville Sam disliked Saunders the
most, and Kitty knew it.. It looked to
him as though she fad deliberately ac-
cepted Saunders’ attentions to punish
fim for a trivial quarrel of the night
efore.

Kitty was just finishing the last tiny
fump of ice cream from the bottom of
ahe tall glass when Sam entered the
store with Belle Paulding, Kitty’s
clearest enemy.

He had bowed stiffly in salatation,
sind Kitty had responded with a “Good
morning, Mr. Hastings,” emphasizing
ihe name as sweetly and as coldly as
the frozen delicacy she had just con-
sumed.

That had been the start of the trou-
le, but the end had been slow in com-
ing. That afternoon Kitty went mo-
coring with Saunders, though she hated
snotor cars, and Belle went buggy
viding with Sam to punish Saunders
for his imagined disloyalty.

Saunders. and Miss Paulding had
quickly patched their quarrel up, but
Kitty was unyielding, and there was a
squareness to Sam's chin that did not
argue in favor of pliability of person-
ality.

With ceremonious politeness each
etrove to show the other how little it
umattered, but Kitty cried herself to’
sleep night after night, and Sam swore

softly, but fervently, at what he was \

pleased to term the foolishness of wo-
mankind. .

So matters stood when the excursion
of the Auburnville cornet band was
announced. The boys needed new uni-
forms, and Dick Potts had promised
to learn the euphonium if they would
fsouy him ‘one.

All public spirited citizens purchased
tickets. Sam bought two through
‘force of habit and then viciously tore
féhem up, whereby the band profited
for Sam was de-

re —

rs

' Kitty, who walked with a limp and |
carried a stick in her band.

'“Has the boat gone?” she cried In
despair,
I. wrenched my ankle... 1 called for
help, but no one seemed to hear.”

“Tl was at the other end of ‘the ts-
land,” explained ‘Sam, who seemed te
think that the reproach was directed
against him. “1 took a nap and didn’t
realize how long | slept. 1 took a
swim’, after that, and some kids
‘chawed’ my clothes.
myself. They’ll miss us at the dock:
and send back for us. Can I fix your
ankle?”

‘“I'm afraid I shall have to ask your 2

assistance, Mr. Hastings,” said Kitty,
suddenly mindful of the fact that she
was speaking to Sam.

He helped her to a rock:and care-
fully cut away the shoe. Then with
the sleeves of his shirt he improvised
a bandage that brought relief and
noted with satisfaction that the sprain
seemed to be slight, since there was
little swelling.

“That wil! have to do until we can
get to town,” he said as he rose to his
feet. “Does it feel any easier, Miss
Norwood ?”

“Very much, thank you, Mr. Has-
tings.”

Sam gritted his teeth and mentally
assured himself that when a fellow
takes the trouble to bind up a girl’s
ankle and sacrifices his very newest
and handsomest shirt for a bandage
the least she might do would be to call
him “Sam,” as of old. He moved stiff-
ly away and took a seat on a bowlder
behind her.

“could cay! him.

But Kitty, though she was dreaatar:
ly lonesome and a little bit afraid. was
too proud to call. Even the-faint scent
of tobacco that now and then drifted
past her on some vagrant breeze was
comforting, since it was an indication
of Sam’s presence, but she would not
speak,

Sam gloomily regarded her eloquent
shoulders and longed to take her in his
arms and comfort her, but he assured
himself that it was her place to make
the overture. It looked as though the
deadlock would continue unbroken
when the serpent entered’ this lone-
some Eden. .

It was only a tiny gartersnake searce-
ly twelve inches long, and it was
hurrying away from the human in-
truders as rapidly as possible when
Sam spied it. With a long switch he
turned its course and headed it past
the rock where Kitty was sitting.

The rustling in the grass caught her
attention, and, looking-down, she spied
the wriggling length of green.

With a shrill scream of -*Sam!” she
struggled to her feet and the next in-
stant was sobbing in her terror, with
her arms about his neck,

With cruel ingratitude Sam dispatch-
ed his benefactor and lifted the girl in
his arms.

“We'll go sit on the dock, Kitty.” he
suggested. “There are no snakes there.
Pretty soon, if help doesn’t come, I'll
Swim over to shore and get a small
boat somewhere.”

“L started up so quickly that |‘

ol Just got.herp |,

If she was lonesome she?”

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_many pale, anaemic girls and

restored to health so many
thousands in the first stages
of Consumption.

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“Biddy,”’ said an Trishman to
girl of his heart, ‘‘did ye iver think
0’ marryin’ ?”’

“Shure now,” replied Biddy, look-
ing demurely at her shoe—‘‘shure
now, the subject has never entered me
mind at all, at all!’

“Tt’s sorry Oi am,’ sald the suitor,
as he turned to depart.

“Wan minute Pat,”
softly—‘‘ye’ve set me
Philadelphia Inquirer.

said Biddy,
thinkin’ !’—

The Oil for the Athlete.—In rubbing
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finer than Dr. Thomas’ Eclectric Oil.
It renders the muscles and sinews
pliable, takes the soreness out of
them and strengthens them for
strains that may be put upon them.
It stands pre-eminent for this purpose
and athletes.who for years have been
| using it can testify to its value as a
| lubricant.

“What are Blngore’s chances
the coming election?”

“Very slight. He hasn’t anything
back of him.’’ .

“He’s got a family tree——

“Yes, but his opponent has
plim tree.’’—Catholic Standard
Times.

m

”

the
and

Repeat it:—‘ Shiloh’s Cure will al- |
ways cure my coughs and colds.”

“What's this luncn doing in the
safe?”
“That’s an election wager,” ex-

plained the junior partner, ‘‘A fel-
low just bet me a dollar to a dough-
nut on the result.’?’ — Louisville
Courier-Journal.

Minard’s Liniment Co., Limited.
Gents,—A customer of ours cured
a very bad case of distemper in a
valuable horse by the use of MIN-
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Yours truly,

VILANDIE FRERES.

“For ten years I’ve been trying. to
drown my sorrows—and they won’t
drown !”’

“No wonder! They’ve had time
learn’ to. swim.’’—Smart Set.

to

A Thorough Pill.—To clear the sto-
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irritants is necessary when their ac-
tion is irregular. The pills that will
do this work thoroughly are Parme-
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in action and mighty in results.
They purge painlessly and effectively,
and work a permanent cure, They
can be used without fear by the most
delicately, constituted, as there are
no painful effects preceding their gen-
tle operation.

Birds can eat and digest from ten
to thirty times as much food in pro-
portion to their size as men‘can. If a
man could eat as much in proportion
to his size-as a sparrowis able to con-
sume he would need a whole sheep for
dinner, a couple of dozen chickens for
breakfast, and six turkeys for his
evening meal.

Minard’s Liniment Cures Dandruff.

“A man told me this morning I
looked the image of you.’

“Where is the fool, I’ ll thrash the
life out of him.’

“Too late! I killed him.’

An American actor was once see-
ing London from the top of a ’bus.
As they swung down the Strand he
asked the driver to point out the
places of interest. ‘Right you are,
sir!’ agreed the driver, touching his
hat. ‘‘There’s Luggit ‘ll; where they
"ang ’em.’’ A little later; ‘“‘There’s
Parliament ’ouses, where they make
the laws wot does it, across’ the way.
An’ - there’s Westminster Habbey,

trance from Bank street and then car- | where they buried the good ’uns wot

* ‘¢fermined to go on that excursion if “Some one will come, Sam,” she de-
only to show that he could go without | Clared. “Anyhow, it’s nice here—for
Kitty. awhile.”

He had never gone on an excursion “You bet It is, Kitty,” assented Sam

alone save once, when Kitty was| 28 the girl crept close to the protecting
spending a week with her aunt over in cirele of his arm.
Cadyville, and be had bad a miserable Then in a torrent of words they had
time. Now he did not look for etfjoy- their explanation. It cleared the air
ment, but Kitty needn't think he coula| WDderfully, and presently Kitty pat-
not go alone if he wanted to. ted the hand that clasped her waist.

Much the same sentiment animated “You say you didn't like to take
Kitty, though she arranged to go with | Belle riding,” she whispered, “just as

_a married sister, and it so happenea| though you had all the trouble. 1 bet
‘that they passed over the gangplank | YOU wouldn't like it any better to let
together, with thé formal greeting that Mr. Saundets pretend to make love to
was now customary. FOU. ;

The picnic was held on Paddle -is- No, I wouldn’t,” assented Sam hon-
land, out in the lake, a favorite picnic | CS4Y 48 he bent his head’to claim an-
ground. A narrow strip of land con- other kiaa, | “Kitty, I'm sorry I killed
nected two rough oval extremities that that snake.”
by an abuse of the imagination might But it was a snake,” explained Kite
be said to resemble a paddle. Bobby | '¥: 88 though that were sufficient rea-
Seaton, who was in the primary class, | 5°% €ven though it was very nice—for
aptly, if improperly, described it as “a a snake.
peninsula with an island at each end.” ,

‘As soon as lunch was disposed of Didn’t Lose Any Sleep.

‘the elders settled themselves near the| Jemner the ‘famous English phy-
baskets, while the young folk wander-| *!!@%, Was essentially a strong and
ed off to eitber end of the island, fol-| 8°!f fellant man. He attended the
lowed by a fusillade of injunctions to prince consort through his fatal illness,
hurry back the moment the first whis-| 2@ 88 the Prince of Wales’ doctor
tle sounded. when the heir to the British throne

Sam and Kitty followed suit, but had so narrow en escape in 1872, and |
Sam made certain that Kitty was he also went to Darmstadt and re-
fheaded for the southern blade of the| M#!med in attendance upon the Prin-
paddle before he started north. It was| C88 Alice till she died. To practice
dreary work sitting all alone on the medicine in the fierce light that beats
point, and presently the fresh air and pied a throne” is not calculated to
the soft bed of pine needles combined | S8°2 the physician’s anxieties, and
fo bring sleep to the worried brain. one who knew Jenner well once ques-

It seemed to Sam that he had en- tioned him on this point and hinted
foyed only a brief nap, but by the ae his responsibilities must some-
tiine he had hunted up the cabin some | eS be sufficient to render sleep or
of the boys hate built for use in the ~~ impossible.
duck season and had borrowed the Bleep, replied Jenner In his char-
bathing trunks be found there he was acteristic way. { don't think that
in the cool water a few minutes when | *2xlety about a patient ever kept me
the warning whistle blew. awake five minutes in my life. I go to

Madly he dashed from the water into | ® bedside. I do my best. What more
the hut to find that’ in that brief in- | °®2 44? Why should I not sleep?”
terval some one had “chawed" his |}

‘clothes, His underwear was as full Hamlet’s Bowl of Gruel.

of knots as a snake that had been George Melville, an old English ac
junching off a full set of pool balls,| tor, was fond of telling a funny story
his trousers were tied into a true lov-| #t his own expense. He was acting
er’s knot that suggested anything but| Lamlet in Bristol. It was the actor’s
sentiment, and the laces of his shoes| Tule to take a bowl of gruel in the
offered a good ten minutes of unpick-| Course of the evening, and his land-
ing. Sam was still surveying the dam- ‘lady sent over the usual refreshment
age when the second whistle sounded.| from the lodgings in Queen’ square,

“Blow, durn ye!” be cried savagely | She happened to have a “new” serv-
as he attacked the knots. “If you} ant girl, who was explieitly directea
can’t wait for a fellow I'll swim for it,| © get to the stage door by the en-
m not goin’ to make my dee-bu in
this.” ry the gruel into the greenroom, She

He cast a ‘glance of scorn at the in-| arrived at a moment when Mr. Mel-
finitesimal swimming trunks and at-| Ville wes “on.” Being unused to the
tacked the knots with a haste that] Ways ef the theater, she asked a man
verified the old adage as to speed.| at the wings where Mr. Melville was.
“The boat was a good half nile from| ‘There,’ said the super, pointing to
sfeere as he burst through the bushes | the stage.
tet grew about the rude landing and The actor was in the middle of the
wheok his fist'at the departing steamer, | |#0liloguy “To be or not to be” when

He was still expressing his opinion [tae girl advanced toward him,. bearing !
of things when there was a-rustle in, the bowl, and said, “If you please, Mr.
the bushes, and Sam turned to face ‘Melville, sir, here is your gruel.”

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pour about half a pint of perfectly
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stand on the stove with a cover on
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)a few minutes add about a table-
spoonful of cold. water, Stand a
minute or two more, and pour off

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the |

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LIKE THORNS —
IN THE FLESH

ie ‘the Sharp iwi iwinges and Tor-
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Certain Cure,
The twinges and tortures of rheu-

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Rheumatism: comes from poisonous
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started, by: cold .weather, damp* wea-
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one way to cure rheumatism. It must

be treated through’. the blood. All
the liniments and rubbing, And. so-
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world will not cure rheumatism. The
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all other treatment had failed. As a
proof of: what Dr. Williams’ Pink
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Mr. Carrol says:—‘‘I have been a
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and in the hope that some other poor
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and then I tried another remedy,
but without any better results. <A
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Pink Pills, and I got three boxes. By
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and I got another’ half dozen boxes.
When I had taken these every symp-
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‘and in the two years that have since
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Dr. Wiliams’ Pink
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diseases due to poor
such as anaemia, indigestion, nerv-
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dance, paralysis and the ailments 9f
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from The Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co. ‘
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Pills not only
all the other
watery blood,

_ A Bladensburg merchant was doz-
ing in his store one day when a little

girl appeared in the doorway and
asked for a quart of molasses. The
storekeeper yawned, stretched himself,
half opened his eyes, and. then in
an injured tone said, “Ain’t there
nobody in’ Bladensburg that sells

molasses but me?’’—The Argonaut.

Warts are unsightly blemishes, and
corns are painful growths. Holloway’ 8
Corn Cure will remove them.

To remove grease spots from books
put some powdered pipeclay on each
side of the soiled leaf, and then press
it with a hot iron, taking care, how-
ever, not to scorch the paper.

Minard’s Liniment for sale evefywhere

A Pugnacious Super.

When I. R. Benson, the actor. was
training two armies of “supers” for a
battle, he. had some difficulty in’ per-
suading the weaker side to submit to
be conquered. Even at the first per-
formance the vanquished force, which
included a somewhut pugnacious Irish-
man, who may be called X., upset tra-
ditiona! usages by severely mauling its
victors, and the play must have suf-
fered if the hint of one of the warriors
had not been taken.

“Look a-here, Mr. Benson,” he said,
“if you want us to bé beaten, you
must put X. in the other army. That's
the only way.’’—London Standard.

—_~

Not In a Position, Etc,
I'd like to tackle any game.
I'd like to prove my heart is true
I'd like to give some one my name—
And all because of Y-O-U

And yet, so minus Is my stack,
Your dad I dere not interview.
Alas, alack, 1 must hold back—
And all because of 1-O-U!
—Kansas City Times.

Untidy.

Precise Aunt (trying to amuse Kate,
who -had come to spend the day)—Oh,
see pussy washing her face!

“Kate (with scorn)—She’s not wash-
ing her face. She's washing her feet
and wiping ’em on her face.—Judge’s

By,

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ANCIENT PICTURE THIEVES.

Some Who Were Calaht and Exe.
cuted—A Case of Substitution. °

In olden: days, indeed until the end
of the Napoleonic era, art robberies
on a grand seale were the privilege
of the mighty ‘of this earth and the
adjunct of victorious ‘wartare. This
was so in the days of ancient Rome,*
when ghiploadiuls of marble and
bronzes were transplanted - from.
Greek tg-Italian soil, and it, was again
when the first ‘Napoleon pillaged the
collections and churches of Italy and
Spain. Such action, however, was
considered the conquergr’s right and
does not come ie the scope of
this article, whé¢ is to deal with
petty theft and sone sig Pern ne
tion of works of art.

The first deed of this nature cf
which I have been able to trace the
record occurred so far back as 1601,
when two heads were cut out cf
Wenceslaus Koeberger’s “Martyrdom
of St. Sebastian’ in Antwerp cathe-
dral. The fragment is said to be
even now in an English private ‘col-
lection. But the thieves were caught
and speedily put to death.

Other cases are on record of art
thefts’ committed in the dim past,
but in most cases they amount to a
bare statement that such and such a
picture or object disappeared at such

and such a date and has never been

heard of since. These records lack
the flavor of romance which clings to
those: other cases in which the pere-
grinations of the thieves and of the
stolen property can be followed as in
that of the famous Murillo at Seville
cathedral, representing ‘The <Ap-
pearance of the Infant Jesus to St.
Anthony.’

The Duke of Wellington is said to
have been so struck by the beauty of
this masterpiece—a canvas of impos-
ing size—that Ife offered to cover the
whole surface with gold pieces if the
chapter would sell it to him. How-
ever, the chapter refused, and in
November, 1874, the figure of St. An-
thony was cut out of the picture by
unknown hands, and the fragment
found its way to America.

There is a distinct element of hu-
mor in the circumstances that attend-
ed the. theft of a portrait by Paris
Bordone a good many years ago from
the house of a wealthy collector in
Vienna, who generally allowed the
public access to his gallery when he
was away from town. The picture
was one dey eut out of its frame and
earried off. A reward of £120 was
immediately offered for its’ recovery,
and descriptions of the stolen picture
were. sent to the diplomatic repre-
sentatives of Austria abroad.

The result was that a stranger call-
ed at the collector’s house and. ar-
ranged to return the picture against
payment of the promised reward if!
no further questions were asked. His
terms were accepted, and on his pro-
ducing the painting, which fitted ex-
actly into the opening that had been
eut out of the original canvas, the
stranger was paid his promised re-

ward. It was only some time after-
ward, when one of the collector’s
friends expressed “doubt as to the
authenticity of the Bordone, that the
picture was found to be a copy of the
stolen masterpiece.

Why He Attracted.

A broker who had the reputation of
using strong language on the golf
links started out on a sunny autumn

afternoon to play nine holes. Look-
ing back after he had driven off, he
saw a great crowd following. There

were young men and old, good players
and bad, alt trailing close behind
with looks of interest and expecta-
tion.

The broker paused and turned. He
smiled politely and nervonsfy. “Real-
ly, gentlemen,” he said, “this is very
flattering. I hope I am in good form
this afternoon. I trust I shall play
well enough to reward all this kindly
interest.”’

“Oh, it isn’t that,’’ replied. an elder-
ly lawyer, with a chuckle. ‘‘We came
out to listen.”

Not a Bit Proud.

The editor of an esteemed contem-
porary thus announces the acquisition
in his domestic circle of two ‘‘fair,
fat and flourishing’ babies.

“Bring out the brass band and
place its noisiest members on the
highest pinnacle of the town. Sound
the loud bass fiddle and let the na-
tion rejoice, for one of the humblest
citizens of the commonwealth hath
been justly exalted over his com-
peers, and we have the honor to be
that fortunate and meritorious in-
dividual. Still we are not proud; we
yet speak to our. neighbors, occasion-
ally, but at the same time it must Le
admitted that we feel several inches
taller than we did a week ago.”

ERE eiat cir iat raced Cae
Warming a Serpent.

“Down in Bermuda,” said a Cin-
cinnatian, “I heard Mark Twain
make a speech about snakes to a
group of little girls.

“The speech, was great. The only
trouble was that ‘the little girls could
not appreciate it. It flew over their
heads. ,

“T remember the humorist’s con-
clusion.

““*Never warm a serpent in your
bosom,’ he wound up. ‘Itis far easier
to warm it by placing it under tne
pillow of an intimate friend.’”’

What Troubled Pat.

An old Irish’ laborer walked into
the luxurious studio of'a New York
artist and asked for money to obtain
a meal, as he was too weak to work.

The artist gave him a qaurter and
then, seeing possibilities. for a sketch
in the queer, old fellow, said, “I’ll
give you a dollar if you’ll let me
paint you.’*.

“Sure,”’ said the man; “it’s an easy
way to make a dollar, but—but I’m
wonderin’ how I'd get. it off.’

An Improvement.

Mrs. Newed—Instead of giving me
pin money my husband puts it in
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evet happened?” cried Millicent,
darting a roguish glance at "‘Cap-
tain”. Flattle, who was supervising the
sailing of the little yacht “Sunbeam.”
“And dauntless, too,’ observed Ellie.
“I believe she would make a splendid
Crusoe,”’
Thereupon Hattie replied loftily:
“any one could live just as well as,
Robinson Crisoe, if she merely used a
wee bit of common sense. A ‘crystal
from one’s watch would provide fire. It
should be quite’a simple matter to kill
small game for food, and clothing as
well, while a person who is not en-
tirely 'gnorant would be bound to rec-
ognize nourishing plants growing wild,
Really, I can see no excuse for casta-

sé [eve she the sweetest captain that

‘for us," langhed Ellie:

., ‘I-er—well,

Fortunately, ail of the girls had prac-
ticed much’ in swimming. during their,
vacation: So they finally reached land
safely,‘ though greatly exhausted.

“Now, Miss Hattie Crusoe, I trust you
will show us how. a real castaway
should live,” said Millie, dryly, as they
helped one another up the cliffs which
rose from the shore, ;

“Yes; I do wish you'd get some food
“And you'd bets,
ter make a@ fire to cook it. Besides, we ”
ought to dry some of our wet clothing.”
the fact is, I left my
watch at home, and so haven't @ crys-
tal," admitted Hattie in embarrass-
ment, .

“Well, no matter,” interrupted Millie,
“for there's some small game yonder

ABOARD THE “SUNBEAM”

ways being forlorn under such circum-
stances.”’

“How I WOULD like to see her a
castaway!" teased Millie, as she play-
fully let fall into the water a rope at-
tached to the mast.

All at once the boat was jerked for-
ward; the rope Millie had thrown over-
board tautened, and the yacht
through the water at flying speed,

“IT wonder what can be towing us!"
gasped Hattie. She seized a hook,
jeaned over as far as she dared, and
beat about the water.

“Cut the rope,"’ advised Ellie.

“I'd be glad to," Hattie replied, ‘If I
only had a knife, but I haven't, and the
rope is stretched too tightly to untie.”’

Quite a distance had they sailed from
the shores of the Caribbean sea, when
the creature towing them made directly
for an island. Not until it reached the
surf was any part of its body visible.
Then Hattie cried, with a shudder:

“Ugh! it's a big devil fish!’’

At the same instant the octopus re-
leased hold of the rope, and the yacht
was struck broadside by the waves,
capsizing.

went

‘the

she's going, to hunt.”

“But .I have nov weapons,” demurred
Hattie, looking at several wild goats in
distance.

Ellie struck an oratorical
claiming:

.“The primitive cave man fashioned
his own rude weapons; why not you?”

“But she will at least pick for us a
few of the nourishing vegetables she is
so familiar with,’ added Miliie.

“She couldn't tell a beet from a cab-
bage,”’ Ellie rudely insisted.

“Oh, girls, please stop!"’ pleaded Hat-
tie. “If I can’t do much to help you
work out your salvation here, I can tell
you what you first ought to do to be
rescued—and that is to put up @ signal
in sume prominent place."

“Hurrah .for Hattie’s brain!
a wonderful scheme!"' laughed
others,

They were not given an opportunity,
after all, to become real castaways, for
Hattie’s father saw the signal—a piece
of clothing waved from the topmost
rock—and took them off in his boat,

But Hattie no longer claims to be
seeking Robinson Crusoe’s laurels.

pose, Ge-

Isn't it
the

THEY HELPED ONE ANOTHER UP THE CLIFFS

,

Yusuf's Gratitude

be my own master!”

“66 CROON TH
S Yusut cried joyfully within his

heart.

Even though his master drove @
sharp bargain in the matter of hire,
the lad was, indeed, prospering. The
thought that within a very few days
he would have a donkey of his own,
to carry up from the fountain the
skins filled with water, which he
vended through the streets, served to
put him in highest spirits.

Only one grief had Yusuf. He would
miss sorely the companionship of the
donkey whe had become such a chum,
But the poor beast was now so old
as to be good, for little; therefore,
Yusuf knew it would be most unwise
to try to purchase him,

Today the donkey looked very aged
—and sad, too. For he would glance

piteously up into Yusuf’s face, as
though he understood the youth was
about to leave him. Yo Yusuf it
seemed that the faithful beast was
pleading for him not to go away. And
the more the boy reflected, the less
he liked the thought of deserting his
comrade. While other donkeys might

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sometimes prove obstinate, this ani-
mal was always kind, cheerful and
willing to aid his master, Indeed, ~

when Yusuf was quite smail and be-
came tired before the long afternoon
was over, the donkey would ladly
carry him, even though it a eatly in-
¢reased the burden.

As the couple plodded through the
narrow streets, which twisted this
way and that way up the hills of the
aity, the donkey began to waver in
his stride. In spite of Yusuf's en-

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couragement, the animals pace grew
slower and slower, unt{l at last, with
a groan, he sank upcn the roughly
paved street. Truly, his yorking days
were over. It may be thay something
told him he was to lose, his master,
and he no longer wished to\ live.
Without a moment's hesitation, Yu-
suf poured precious water from the
skins over the donkey. Thén he emp-
tied the rest of the bottlds and slung
the skins upon his own/back. After
a while, with the lad’s%ielp, the don-
key was able to dvance slowly
toward his stable. ;
Meanwhile Yusuf was thinking very
hard.» He knew wef}! that his master
would abandon thé poor beast, now
that it was no longer able to work,
He couldn't bear to think of this.
Suddenly he made up his mind. Into
the donkey’s ear he whispered:
“Cheer up, my comrade. You do not
know how much I have appreciated

your faithfulness. And now { am
going to see that you live in comfort
the rest. of your days, I shall bay
you, so that you will be my very own,
In my master’s service I can easily
earn enough to keep us both. What
matters it if I hire myself out for a
few more years? We shal! be happy,
you and I. You will graze and take
your leisure during the day. In ‘the
evening we shall be together, and on
holidays we shall go on epioyable
tramps ‘out in the country,” as
The donkey heard. He raised his
drooping ears and looked so gratefully
into Yusuf'’s eyes that the iad already
felt repaid for his great denial.

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until he was immediately over
the eaves.
- hand disappeared. A
he @rew it forth.

De the roof Tommy climbed,

his
moment later
With the sparrow’s
nest in his hand he made his way
back over the roof and crawled
through the attic window.

“Teacher said there was something
wonderful in the way birds build their
nests,” said he, “but now that I’ve
studied this nest specially I can’t ‘see
that it’s so much.”

Tommy thoughtfully pulled apart
the twigs, moss, fragments of cord
and hair of which the nest was com-
posed, and then leaned back on the
old chest to gaze at the particles
strewn at his feet.

It seemed that not more than a
second’s time had elapsed before a
tiny sprite flew in at the window and
perched herself befcre the astonished
Tommy.

“I’m the Bird Fairy,’ said she by way
of introduction, “and I come to tell
you that the birds are " protesting
against your scorn of their ability as
arebitects. They wish me ‘to prove to
you that they are quite as skilful
builders, in their way, as your peo-
ple.”

As the fairy said this she took from
her robe a pair of tiny wings. These
she fastened to Tommy's shoulders.
With a wave of her wand she then
reduced him to the size of herself.
In obedience to her command, Tommy
followed the fairy out: through the
attic window.

BEGINNING THE JOURNEY

Stealthily then

Straight
flew.

into the apple tree they
And here on a topmost bough
Tommy saw the wonderful little nest
of the goldfinch, contrived so
imitate perfectly the branch upon
which it was built. Then, over the
currant bush, where ‘the catbird had
built his simple nest, they passed to
an elm from which a/dainty humming

as to

bird . had suspended his dwelling.
Long, delicate grass fibers were
cleverly woven with strings and

threads, and the nest, when completed,

Girly Girl- Who

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quite wicked

And monsters and goblins
lived there,
On tother side of the big fence;
I used to belleve ev'rything
I'd never climb over—I'd loo

1 saw there a garden with weeds overgrown ‘

And ev'rything mussy; ‘twas easily
Nobody now gave it a care.
But while not a’p
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A hole that I found in the fence.

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hug in the flexible limbs, where each
passing breeze would gently sway it.

“But if you would see a real, tip-
top carpenter, come and watch the
woodpecker,” remarked the Bird
Fairy, in respdénse to Tommy’s words
of praise for the humming bird's cun-_
ning.”

“I never really noticed how hard
the old fellow did work,” Tommy ad-
mitted, after he saw that the wood-
pecker never ceased pecking away at
the wood until’ he had entirely hol-
lowed out his nest in the dead tree.

Over sea and land for mahy thou-
sands of miles the two then took their
flight until they landed in Asia. Here,
in China, they saw swallows build
their nests in caves. These birds car-
ried their own plaster and mortar
with them, for they possessed cer-
tain glands: in their mouths in which
was secreted a_ certain’ sticky sub-
stance. With this material, together
with a few twigs, the swallows con-
structed basket-like nests and glued
them securely to the walls.

EDIBLE BIRD HOUSES

“And people are very fond of eating
the houses swallows build,” explained
the fairy. “Now you must admit that
people can’t eat their own houses—
unless they’re made of gingerbread.”

They saw other swallows, too. Some
built their nests in chimneys; others
(who were real engineers) tunneled
their way into a bank of earth,
where they laid their eggs.

Thousands of other miles the fairy
led Tommy until the two stood in
Australia. Tommy examined , with
great interest the nest of the prairie
lark, carefully hidden from sight in’
the low shrubbery.

“You will remember,” said the fairy,
“that the Israelites in Egypt were un-
able to build houses because they
didn’t have straw for their bricks. But
observe that the prairie lark not only
builds a cozy little nest from the very
scarce material offered by shrubs here-
abouts, but hides it, as well.”

When next they paused in their flight
they were in Europe, wherc, among
the willow trees, Tommy visited the
bower of a certain pied wagtail. Ex-
ceedingly well built was it, and as com-
fortable a home as one could wish
for.

In South America Tommy inspected
the nest of the “Great Pointer,” which
looked for all the world like a big pud-.
ding with a hole in the top, Coming

‘north he paid his respects to Mrs.

Spy,

shown

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I. looked and I looked hard as ever I could,
No monster or goblin of bear even would
Of himself give me one tiny peep—
Tn once, when I thought through the hole I would

I saw at the hole
And a watch over me it did keep. '

} “Oh, monster, don't dare look at me!" did I ery;
Then a nice, rosy mouth took the place of the eye,
And it said, with the scornfulest curl:
“I¢ ISN’T a monster, I will have you know,
And it isn’t polite for a boy to say s80-
It’s only just, me—Girly Girl.”

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Sedge-Warbler, and complimented her
upon the neat appearance of her little
home, supported at its four corners by:
stout stems. And“ Tommy was duly

. sympathetic when Mrs. Warbler com-

plained:

“My sister has had the misfortune to
hatch out another cuckoo. You know,
the mother cuckoo always lays her
eggs in- other birds’ nests, and then
the poor birds have to wear themselves
out trying to feed their hun charges
after they break their shells. But you
can’t fool: my cousin, Mrs. Summer

“Warbler. If she comes home and hap-

pens to find a cuckoo egg in her ‘nest
of cobwebs and bark and grass, she
will’ build a second story to the nest
and leave the eggs in the old nest to
perish, rather than hatch out a cuckoo.”

Tommy was intensely interested. And ;

his interest held while he inspected the
many different kinds of houses erected
by the thrasher. They weren't very
elaborate nests, but they were con-
structed almost ‘everywhere—even - in
thorn bushes, brush heaps and in the

corners of projecting fences. From
these nests the boy and-his guide
passed to the substantial structures

built in crotches of: small saplings by
the wood thrush.

As the two flew over a field of sway-
ing weeds, Tommy pointed below, ask-
ing:

“Isn’t that a nest?”

“Yes,” replied the fairy, “that is
where the bunting dwells. He likes
the. wind to swing him to and fro,
therefore he builds among the weeds.
Nearby, on the ground, is the nest of
a bobolink. This is in the form of @
little hollow. made at the root of a
bunch of weeds, and it is lined with

dry grass."’
“The kingbird never changes his
home,” explained the ‘fairy, as they

came to a nest built in an orchard, of
weeds, grass, roots, and lined with
horsehair and other light material.

HOME AGAIN

In the twinkling ofan eye Tommiy
found himself perched upon the win-
dowsill of the attic.

“Are you convinced of the birds’
skill now?’ demanded the fairy. “You
must bear in mind, too, that, whereas
comparatively few human beings con-
struct their own homes, all birds do—
that is, all except ‘the goatsuckers,
the nighthawks, .cowbirds, and a
others.

“Yes, I confess that I didn’t know
anything about it before, and that I

sadly misjudged the birds,’ replied

Door

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Tommy, as the fairy removed the
wings from his shoulders and he grew-
again to his right size. “Why, some
of your birds are weavers, carpenters
and masons all in one! Wonderful,
isn’t it?” ,

And Tommy was of the same opinion
after he awoke, for it is true that he

had not budged from the chest 4x- ,

ing all these adventures.

Seats of a King

NE is aceustomed to think or a~.
O king or gveen's throne. But *-

most’ rulers e
thrones. King’ Bdward of England
has six. The most costly, that at
Windsor Castle, is composed entirely
of carved ivory inlaid with precious
stones. Most anéient of the thrones
is that at Westminster, where the

rulers of Great Britain are always
crowned. It ig of massive oak; and
has beneath the peat a sandstone
block, known as W&@jstone of destiny
from Scone, whieh was the len»
of power of the

tish kings.
Another throne, of Burmese teak
carved, gilded an

studded with crys-
tals, stands beneath a srt gilt can-
opy in the House of Lords. .The
Pilace is very
large and imposing, having a canopy
overlaid with crimson velvet, Which«
is embroidered with crowns set with
fine pearls.

Detectives of Animal World.

RDS and insects are . wonder-
B fully clever detectives, Upon
, One occasion a gentleman liv-
ing in India observed a large flock of
crows leaving a tree near his house
Shortly after they were gone violent

' An English beekeeper placed «
quantity of what he believed to be
the best quality of sugar in his hives.
But the bees promptly turned it out,
and the man feund later that the
sugar was a Cee imitation.

Swallows and other birds that mi!-
grate always choose as their dwelling
places localities which are healthful.
People, knowing this, watch these
birds and build their own ses ac-
cordingly. NA

Then there are bird and Ynsect po-
licemen which kill the rogues ameng
their kindred. Badybirds, for instance.
keep the green files off roses, and the
reddish-brown ant patrols the cotton
fields and kéeps.them clear of the
destructive ‘cétion li- weevil.

Legend of a Faithful
Hound

RINCE LLEWELLYN once went
P out hunting, leaving his infant
child in charge of Gelert. He
was horrified to: see upon his return an
empty cradle and the floor bespattered
with blood. Gelert sat on his haunches,
looking joyously into his master’s face,
but the impetuous prince read the evi-
dence wrongly, and.siew the hound on
the spot. In the next room he pres-
ently saw the child, alive and well, and.
in a dark corner a, dead. wolf. Over-
come with grief at Wis*mist@ie, the sav--
age vwarrior mourned the loss of his
only friend, and buried the dog near by”
with all honor. To this day the place
is called “Beddgelert’—the Grave of
Gelert—now a pleasant little village ‘n”
North Wales, :

A Watch as a Comipsss?:

Bane few of you, perhaps, bave-

observed the fourth hour on:the
dial of & clock is marked.*‘TH2”
This was due to @

dq> wnese Grection the first. watel —

have several.

°

MAKING THINGS DO.

Willing Sacrifices a Piatt Will Make tr
Time of War.”

Not the only heroes of war Were

Mhose Who bore the musket, and sword

a

The women and children’ who stayed ’

at home and kept up beart in spite of
#he privations of siege are to be num
ered among thie ‘valiant.
of some of the southern domestic econ.’
mies during. the civil war is given by
Miss M. J. Walsh in ber personal rec-
ailections printed by ‘the Mississippi
Historical sovicty: ° ;

Among the glorious achievements of
#hat time the makeshifts at home. de-
a@erye recognition, for the} reptesent
ingenuity and willing sacrifice... As
various articles gave out substitutes
‘were found. If no substitute could be
invented for an article we simply did
without.

Coffee, the southerners’ daily bever-
@ege; was manufactured from parched

eorn, burnt. corn bread, even burnt
molasses Sweet potatoes cut into
#mall squares, driei, parched and

ground were also ‘used.
mg effect was lacking, but it was all
the better for our nerves. For tea,
‘young raspberry leaves dried were

The stimulat

Sugar was a serious problem, and
anolasses wis as precious as sugar,

“What shall we do when the present
‘supply of Louisiana molasses gives
out?” was a burning question, and the
only answer was, ‘Do without.”

Grits were eaten. for rice. When
we wanted soda we swept the fireplace
elean and burned corncobs.

Mustard and. pepper were
home grown products, Salt was cost-
fy. Every bit was shaken eff dry
pork and used. All brine was boiled
down and dried. Still the supply
flower and lower, Some one discovered
that the dirt floors
houses were salf mines, so to speak
The dirt was put in hoppers and run
down, the brine boiled and dried.

All new cloth had to be manufactur
ed at home from raw material, The
dyestuffs were made from roots,
walnuts and indigo,

Shoes were rovtgh erie made from
the hides of beeves, cured by the ne
groes. I \ made of
thread or | mon semis. Caps were

ms were coarse

eut out of cloth and hats-plaited frou
palmetto

Letters were written on the blink
leaves of Wo! the wrone side of wel!

seraps Or oll cen velopes
pasted together

turned and

Dean Swilt is credit with “Bread
ts the s i :
Tt was
beauty is forever”
Brankiin
those
“Man ope . Iyurt Crap od
remarked Vhew ie Ie pis,
“AJL ervion Wool? mn
gion foindcin 2 1 ibis
It wi iho oolncorvation of. Piro
Southerue Vet ePiy's akin tod
Hdwrard Coke. the fluetish jer
of the opinion tHiat SA man’s boise |
bis castle.” f
“When Greeks joined
was the ‘: of wou’? owe
Nathaniel Lav
We arp | hted to
not to Sha
himself agin.”

who lredr Ul tnedy

To Milton owe owe “The paradise of
fools." UA Wilderness of sweets gai
“Moping neholy and Ineoustru
inadness.”

The poet Campbell found that "Co

ing events cast tireir shadows befor
apd “Tis «dist

to the view.”

ance dends enehantorent

His Last Retort.
The story is told of a well Koow
Chicago criminal lawyer whose valu

ble services were retaiicd byt
wealthy relatives of a man accused ¢
murder in a southwestern state.

The case was a bad one, for
dence was overwhelmingly

accused.

the evi
against the
this fact the lawye
contrived by the skillful exercise oi
every trick and maneuver Known t
the profession to secure the disagree
ment of juries, delays, apperts, cle.
till at last the case was brought before
the supreme court of the Unite. Sta

Despite

One day in an interview beoveen th
prisoner aud his counsel the forny
asked, “In case the supreme couri

should decide avainst me,

be my pext move?"
“To beaven, I hope,

response of (he luwyer,

what will

”

was the candia

Gent and Gemman.

This sluns word ‘seems to have core
fu at first ascucnrere written contra
tion, To have found the word layze

in law reports of the seventeenth ce

tury, particulatly those of Pophai an
of Bavis. tu Sir John Northcote
“Note Book,” Dee, 2, 1640, Lord Gra

is described as saying of one Hallfors
or Holford “that be is no gent; that io
memory of divers be kept’ hogs.” Phe
cognate word gemman can be trdecu
about a century etirlier.—London Note
and Queries.

Man and the Earth.
knows the age of man on
lendeucy of epinion amon:

Nobowy
earth. ‘The

scholars is to the effect that the humav |

advent upon
many.tens of thousands of years ago
John Viske, bat ked by other high au
thorities: ¢ itims that man lived on the

this: planet. took place

earth as long ago as half a million
years.
Scrpstit bere felines
_ Tears. :
“On the right.” said a_ Killarney

guide to a party of tourists,
cascade called the Maiden’s
on the left
ow’s Tenrs,
quickest.”

Tears and
a cascade culled the Wid
‘cuuse

daa Sanne nace pan neh

A glimpse ,

made of
|

grew |

of the old smokes |

bark. |

“yell see a |

dries up the!
, least Js the bride.—Spanish.

A LITTLE “LEARNING.

Some. Amusing Blunders Made by
English School Children.

Here are some amusing blunders, or

“howlers,”, wade: by English school

children: Q How were soldiers in ear-

ly times different from those of today?
A They weren’t; they had: big darck’

eyes and long black hear. “ ‘ich dien’
if the motto on the Prince of Wales’
features.” “The Dutéeh’. and English
after the armada struck a medal; Je-
hovah’ blew, and they: were scatte

on it.’ “John Ballol was persuaded

rebel and fled to France, where he
afterward died in mental agony.” » “In

55: BC. Julius, Oresar troased over- to:

Britain and conquered it, and In 64
B.C. he crossed over again to drive out
the Danes; this shows, therefore, that
he laid the foundation of the French
language and French civilization and
also made Italy safe from any attack
from the barbarians.”, “Hamilear has
a touring show, panorama, etc., and
acrobats in the’ Curzon hall, Birming-
ham“. “Cicerd “was a Grecian. histo-
tian; he led the 5,000 Greeks after
Xenephen was killed.”

Socia) questions are sometimes treat-
ed after this fashion: “In one of the
slums of Liverpool, in the back yard,
was a girl filled up with cabbage stalks
and tea leaves” “In the houses of the
| poor the drains are in a fearful state
and quite unfit for human habitation.”
“In pearly all :poor houses the Jand-
lady lives ip the center of the room,
. keeping a tenant in each corner” “The
best way to improve poorhouses would
be to put a thick plank on the floor
and a cast iron beam on the ceiling”

The Bible prdvides some quaint in-
stances: “When Lot's wife looked back
she was turned into a pillar of cloud by
day and a pillar of fire by night.” “The
city of refuge heaven” “Amos
Was a very dotefnul person or an opti-
“A synagogue was not used as
ao swimming bath or a tanner’s shop.”
“The Pa
than
year”

was

mist.”

eight days or younger than

BURNING A DIAMOND.

The Experiment as Made by Davy and

Faraday.
That dinunonds will uot only burn,
but will ize, Was proved as long ugo

as Isld bs Sit
Michael learaday
foaout at

Lintpney Davy and

Florence, where the two

cientists Were visiting the great Duke
Puthihe piass was
the medium throngh which the
I his

ny comple of

sun
yer te burne
omsdred of cone

wo Prom oeaeh

balt feet. the tiree

ens beolpeg eo forrteen inehes in
about
Phe dia Geb rested com oa rod
rped
moerced With betes

three

Moptatinii Wheto frida eup st

fo Madselt eb bree yreopa tion oof

Dyas red owas fined tno the

enter toa
Qtv-(Wo crbieat

mewes eapaedty. exhausted of vier atid

fF three quarters of no hour it “was
yo tiwice rot e to cook the
tht the
ipinishing and
Suddenly

he Phen it was netieed
amond was stewiv a
hecom ing

it burst

dually Opureue
into atie Phey

Stone trom the foes. amd it blazed
Away merrily Htovlawed brittiantiy,
with a oseurlet fieht inelining to pur
ples and continued to burn for about
four minutes.

The glass was then cooled and the
dininond again submitted te the aetion
of the sun Again it: blazed. but not
for so lone a period as at first ‘Pwice |

wis then the
This
on Which, so fir
d bud been seen

more this repeated, and
(amond totally
was the first o¢casion

was consumed
us is Known, a diamon
to burn.

How to Test a Restaurant.

The man was enthusiastic about a
restaurant be bad discovered

“Best place Pve eaten at in months,”
he said. “Everything first class,
better try it’

“Were
went in?’

“As avbear,”

“Go back

you very hungry
his friebd.
said the man,
some time when
ravenous,” his friend advised,
vou like it then. 1
a polnt never to experiment with a
sfaurant: recommended by a
ho was very bungry when he ate
‘ve Toa person who is half starved
‘ything | ta

when you
asked

nat so

cand see bow

stes good.”

He Was Very Cool.

A conrres who was on board «a
trato whieh was wrecked says that
vhen the shogk came one of the pus
cheers was pitched over severa! seats
just in thme to. receive the conteuts of
the water which tipped over
ind soaked bis clothing with ice wa-
ter A highly excited passenger rushed
ap to hin and told him to keep cool.’
‘Go nway,” said the wet man, “I am
he coolest man ip the car. I have justi
mid two buckets of ice water emptied
fowu my back’ ‘

stu

cooler,

‘ Its Origin.
“IT wonder who first said ‘It’s better
fo be born lucky than rich?” querieJ

| the young widow,

“Some ald fool whose young wife
married him for his money, I imagine,”
rejoined the wise bachelor.—Chicago
News. '

As powerful as man thinks he ts, he
has not yet been able to tell what
makes a eat black and white.—Man-
chester Union.

At the wedding the one who eats

ssover lainb might vet be older |
one |

Phe experiment was |

other |

removed the

You'd |

you are |
make |

person

_————— a ona

The Kindness. of the Poor.

The old adage that the poor are the
best friends Of the poor was instanced
in the story of a chambermaid, who is
a’ young widow with two children to
support, After a lingering sickness the
younger of the children died, and, the
voung mother’s,bank account having
beep depleted from defraying the ex.
penses cf the weeks of medicine, and
doctor’s visits, she was obliged to con-
tract a debt at the undertaker’s, After
that she paid. a small monthly install-
ment until the bill was half settled,
when ‘one day there came through the
mail a receipt for the remainder, The
receipt was accompanied by a badly
‘written-and blotted note from a scrub:
womah in # large uptown hotel, who
knew of the trouble, knew the family
and the circumstances and in her note
explained that she had no family nor
near relatives and that she earned
enough to support herself and that she
wanted to use this surplus money for
the little mother, who needed all that
she could make extra to support the
remaining: child. As scrubwomen rex
ceive only 50 or 75 ‘cants a® day, ‘one
will readily appreciate the spirit which
moved one kind soul to help another
in distress.—Leslie’s: Weekly.

‘What Words Can Do.

“Any one who swears,’ * declared the
bishop of Carlisle, “manifests the bex-
garliness of his vocabulary.’ The Con-
cord Patriot puts it in this fashion:

“People swear because they do not.
know the possibilities of plain) Eng-
lish or have not the skill to manipulate
it so that it will yield the amount of

fire they want. You can do alnost
anything with Common words, No
matter how tame and lifeless they
}look standing in stupid rows as if

they didn’t know
when it rained, they
dance like imps, to frolie like fairies,
to float augelwise on Heht winks, to
elow like fire spirits. They can do
things that make the ordtusry

profanity look feeble seareerows
stiffened up with a The
eure for profanity —reformers and edu.

enough to come in
ean be made to

bits of

like

fence stake

feators please make a note—is merely
| wit enough to” handle your words so
that swearing will seem like baby tatk

nh comparison.”
| wonedconceenlsaue

When

refi
| ned tt toeq lrist, with os
veil vile saw. PE tum se
' if hontd avon oy
t I \ toon wiih oh ‘ ’
re
‘ iy Phy vd) owWwots
) ' ro
t ’ | e
' rece
( el ea ! 1
Vil
‘ 1! an bel 1 j et
i i rl do Biondi
! Voshalle Woo wy '
A in
tif t ! nis ed
\
i 1 yon! ae ! 1 1¢
{ { t \ } it you who
gare were .
it r § k
; aM ‘ ich lias
veu tl World V E et 1
a u nit \ hot the muvjior
ty of « \ ‘prions brains,
that their attifae when steoutue over
their work tends to a ermiubal develop
nent in the part where t! nteLectual
Swenties are seated Some one dia
wrilfen a book of diastrious. shoei
In it ave Sir Clondesley Shovel,
Gifford the Permiile, Brloemiield, author
{oof the well Known Parimners Daye?
face , the ovientalist; Nedanis Msgs

lox,
Jobn Iitte.
wr, Quid: Sturgeon,

creorge fonnder of the Society of
the Biblical

the electvieian

Criewds;: schol
fist of iNustrious shoemakers runs into

Scores,

Rocks That Float In Water.

A geologist who is well up in. his
business can a dosen or twenty
different specimens of rocks and
erals that have less specific
\ than water and which wilh if

into that element, foat on the surface

(fubelfte is one of the best known rep-

resentatives of that ehuss

mine

'

gravity
tossed

The commen

The

least specifie grav-

stone is
ock with the very
ify known is damari, a
found in an extinct Volcano in De
land. Its atomic weight is .5,
ly one-half that of

WLICe another example

mura
or exact

hverogen,
The Sum of Genius.
Men give me some credit for
All the genius that To have lies

genius
just in

| this: When E have a subject in hand, 1
, study it profoundiy. Day and night it
| is before me. | explore it in all tts

bearings. My mind becomes pervaded
| with it. Then the effort
is what people
fruit of genius. It is the fruit of libor,
and of thought.— Alexander Tfamilton.
Art of Reading.
To get the

reading we
must begin early and work hard. Tt is
an oaurt like music or painting and de
mands its stern apprenticeship. It re
mains true that a man who kuows only
his own tongue does not fhat.—
Christian Worlds

best out of

knw

Wonderful.
She—What interested you most in
your. travels, major’ Major— Well. the

mummy of a queen To saw in
{ts wonderful how they
woman dry up and stay

Philadelphia Inquirer.

Neypt.
could make a
thit

way.

A fool can talk without kuowing
what\he ought to sav, but a wise man’s
silepee is due to his knowing what’ be

ought not to say.-Chicago News,

| ise of remuneration

“>
bits\ ‘
UNCLE SAN 0 ‘ ‘
The Payment Fo: Siue an
George Wasi: ‘

The Columbinn (is. tenis orery ve
cently has cowe hity pu ioelcobotw
papers relating to the te, fatdtess tne

tween one of the Catrotu ically an
the -gaverninent of the (iced States
fo? the payment of the uiones que tor
the famous portrait of Wao bondi tu
Gilbert Stuart ‘This was’ the portray
which in the war-of Isle wa
from the buruing White Llouse by the
Intrepid Dolly Madison © Stuset pant
ed this .portrait in Vhilidetphia tn
1795, when in the beight vf bis. gliery
He but récently ‘had returned |
London, where be bad counted amony
his subjects King George 1 the
Prince of Wales, Mrs Siddons anu
many other celebrities, and be had the
temerity to usk cougress tor SSU00 for
his paiutipg of the first patriot

The solons were aghast at such a
price, promptly refused to pay iti and
intimated that any. one sv uupatriotic
might as well go back and paint kings
for he was not sulted to point patriots
But) Daniel Carrot of iuddingter
threw himself in the breach, urged the
claim of tbe artist and put before the
congress what a figure they would cut

rese het

before the eyes of the world if) thes
| failed to meet an obligation incurred
Carroll offered to pay the money him

self if the government gave hit prom
After much quib
bling a promissory note was given ats
per cent, and it was twenty years be

fore the Carroll heirs received the
| whole of the $800 which Stuart. re
}veived for the finest) portrait) ever

) During the hasty

» Rritish

The

mine |

substance

Which Pimake |
uve pleased to call ‘the |

painted of the Father of His Country
cutiing of the picture
wheu the
mmarehing on the eupitai
the signature of Stuart was destroved
Che picture lay in obscurity for a doz
‘novenrs, nod there douti
hrown on its suthenticity when it was
ehung-ip the White Tlouse It now
Vine Martha
artist, ana
he two form the sole decoration of the

frame victorious

were

from its

Was) Some

idorns the roam with

shingtoen Ips the same

hrone room, as the dainty blue room
is dubhed by those who like court
Mirases For over seventy-five years
t hur in the east room
THE PROATIY FOWER
i ee ee StIVE PUONWOOR.
‘Sciemce,” Said Lord Kelvin, “Affirms |
the Existence ct afoot”
! Het at aa ept the view ot
hoon moe ether as oat
' Ther , { tions ‘
( e that at
af ( { tnt
{ ’ ! in oth re ted
{ ferin Nowtberoenn |
tor vit t Se y t
Hor clea
t ( Ou the eon
Ie
’ i] vt tet pal (ros i \
. ' t 4
1» it doth
( iin h nad dead
‘ ‘ ; i]
1 { ' a
i ‘ out
‘ and
“ ! \
peat aanal ' pereove
' t oth
hy } i w \
\ (50 wk t owe
a ot e it
oo Cobo ded s Other itary pty
| or t thread forces
idle tera er oabse
! \ eh itive POWe!
d ! weit theary of oa
\! { ‘ 1 an | ehlaer oot aha
* { | ' te ed toa
yb tine matic ay ot rentive onawer
Tony Mestis neo Poashed the vreat Lie
viv bem Walk ota the ntry if
ebetieved that wrass aid towers crew
slely as the resaitoof chemical force
Tie replied. “Noi any tiere thau bbe
feve that cheniient force can translate

Look botaiy describing the
Every aci
stupendous tifacte for

physien! and mathematical

Upon
henomena of
forhe wilh is oa

‘heimical,

veretation

chence {i your intellect is) strong
‘nough you will he forced to believe
n God, the foundation of all religion.
nd vou will see that science is not at

"oo bostile to religion far
t must be looked upon

Lord Welvin.

from that
as its auxiliary

Wanted His Tip.

‘Tn Astoria’ osatd a
state otlicia

Wasbington
tu be an old
we the first of
splendid

always

“there used

ishertuan Who brought
‘very month a present of a
tinon from his

ive the old
Peat one

master I
fisherman a tip ‘

morning | owas very busy,
ind when the old boy broagbt the fish
thanked him hurriedly uud, forget

ne bis tip. bent over my desk itenip
be fiesitated a moment, then cleared
Ms throat and said:
Seuntor, !d ye he so kind as fo

ye it in that ve didn't
ne no tip titis time, or my
lve went aud speut

wou
writin’ vive

vo»

it on rum.

’

Fresh Water Fish In Germany.

Geriaan law does uot pevinit of fresh
vater fish being sold excépt when alive
Therefore it is common to see tanks of
veh fish in the ‘restaurant windows,
ind they are hauled ju this Way con-
ilerable distiinces over Prussian rail
aud shipments are made to Ber

in from [yyous, in lrance, and from as

VAYs,

LUMBER
Farm Implements
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Everbory Reads

wife'll think

‘ar south as Roumania.
The Wrong Word.
Mrs, A.—-I can veinember the day;

when you begged
hat would make

ine to say the word
you happy for life.

Vr. A.—I know, but you said the
wrong word.

on

Others Whenever.
Some people make happiness wher:
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